Word: litted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supervisors failed to respond to her complaints that a co-worker was harassing her. Walters claimed that when she was promoted to acting crew chief that year the occasional taunts at work became menacing and sometimes violent threats. She says another Facilities Maintenance worker, James Tegan, threw a lit firecracker at her--and was not adequately disciplined by her immediate supervisors. At first Tegan was suspended for a day, but later he was reinstated, and paid for the missed wages...
Case in point: senior Andy Janfaza. Janfaza tallied 17 goals this season, six more than he scored in his other three years combined. And sophomore John Murphy, who, after scoring three goals in 34 games last year, lit the red 12 times this season...
...Cornell (Dennis Quaid, charming even unto death), is determined not to go gentle into that good night. He will devote his final hours to finding out who slipped him slow-acting but irreversible poison. But Cornell is no longer an accountant. He is a blocked novelist, cynically teaching college lit. The new twist is that Cornell's death, not to mention several others, is motivated not by the usual lusts (money, sex, power) but by dark literary passions. How far we have come from 1949, when it was a boring old iridium shipment that set everyone's wheels spinning...
...scroll and, using powerful flashes and fast shutter speeds to lessen the chance of blurring, worked quickly to capture the document with nearly every imaginable combination of lighting and film. Some blocks of text were photographed as many as 70 times. The breakthrough came when the document was lit from behind and shot with a special Japanese-made infrared film. Recalls Zuckerman: "When we developed the first set of negatives, focusing on one column of text, we could immediately see stuff we couldn't see in earlier photographs." Adds Charlesworth: "The letters unfolded before our eyes like flowers opening...
...Lawrence lit the red light four minutes in the middle period on a power-play goal by Jamie Baker. Baker's 26th goal of the year gave the Saints a 3-1 lead...