Word: mounds
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Check out this hardware store’s vast array of snow shovels, ranging from $12.49 to $25.99. Embrace the holiday spirit, pick up one in red or green, and block your least favorite entryway with a mound of snow. The store also sells plastic disks, toboggans, and inflatable tubes—all under $10, and just as effective at door-blocking...
Most of the chairs at the Prime Minister's table are empty now, and the long cloth is littered with the remains of a large early-evening repast: half-eaten bowls of lamb and okra, traces of hummus, a dented mound of rice. As he stirs three small, white tablets of artificial sweetener into a tear-shaped glass of tea, Ibrahim al-Jaafari describes the scolding he gave the Minister of the Interior that morning. A U.S. raid the day before had found evidence that Iraqi police were torturing detainees at a secret prison in Baghdad. Soon after...
...please don’t summarize your day, don’t leave long pauses of empty silences, and do not, under any circumstances, then apologize for your lack of brevity with drawn out umms and ahhs. It’s uncomfortable listening to voicemail, considering a cancer-breeding mound of metal is peeled to my ear, so don’t elongate my misery...
...driven software firm Sedona into the ground. Refco disclosed the investigation when it went public, saying the case would be resolved. But it never was, raising questions as to whether the IPO should have proceeded with Maggio on board. As for Bennett's debt maneuverings, says futures broker James Mound: "You wonder why someone so wealthy, in such a powerful position, would do something so immoral." Prosecutors aim to find out, but Refco customers weren't waiting. They scrambled last week to take their business elsewhere in an exodus that may bring down the house of Refco...
...glean some information about Schourek from my teammates, who saw him play earlier in the season. Rumor has it that he doesn’t like to pitch anymore, and he only takes the mound for the occasional relief appearance. I look through some results and find that last season, in seven innings pitched, he stuck out 16 and allowed no runs while recording three saves...