Word: pluckings
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Despite hard times, Americans have been rushing money and supplies to the damaged areas. But in the long run, pluck and perseverance will no doubt prove to be the most trustworthy ally for Andrew's survivors. Mitch and Penny Burke, newly wed, emerged from a closet after the storm ripped through their comfortable home in southern Dade County to find they had lost almost everything -- dining-room furniture, bed, clothes, wedding gifts. The damage was so bad that their entire neighborhood may have to be razed. "We've got new wallpaper, but no walls," said Penny with resolute humor...
...desist. Stronger sanctions against Serbia, however, including a total trade embargo or a freeze of foreign assets, might only encourage Milosevic to hunker down even more. Short of large-scale military intervention, a prospect no one countenances, it appears, sadly, that no force exists with sufficient power and pluck to halt the slaughter...
...Kristi Yamaguchi, of Fremont, Calif., faced the international press, blissfully fingering her gold medal. She had nothing else to say. No thoughts about what she would do next year, or what she would do tomorrow. She had just made it through the arduous course of a fairy tale: pluck vs. luck...
...week the dogged challenger was out stumping on Christmas Eve. At a J.C. Penney in Bedford, he bought five pairs of socks, pointing out that when Bush made a symbolic shopping-mall foray recently it was in distant Maryland -- and that the President bought only four pairs. Despite his pluck and energy, Buchanan has severe handicaps: low budget, frail organization and an obsession with ideology that may confine his appeal to the right wing. If Buchanan concentrates his fire on Bush as an uncaring patrician whose feckless policies devastated New Hampshire's economy, he could attract some moderates and independents...
...know, if Aristotle ever read Peninsula's spin on his philosophy, he'd probably eat earth or pluck out his hair...