Word: skipped
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...meanings and looks up sutky. No allusions here; all it means is "a day and a night." Marvelous; now we know another Russian word. Perhaps the scraps in Welsh, Turkish, Greek and Hebrew offer magical insights, perhaps not. The suspicion is that they are simply authentic sound effects. You skip them, the way in another kind of writing you skip descriptions of furniture and scenery...
Rumor has it that Boston Red Sox lefty pitcher Bruce Hurst is ready to skip town. Despite the competitive offer from the Old Towne Team, the 18-game winner and best Sox southpaw in decades is leaning toward accepting an offer from the San Diego Padres. San Diego...
...used to think no one read this advertisement-laden publication. If you pick one up--and how often do you simply skip by the person who is handing them out, hands dug deeply in pockets?--you simply toss it in the nearest trash...
Down on the pebbly beach, where small waves skip in one after another, the fence stops short of the water. Its concrete foundations have been laid bare by erosion; on one concrete post someone has written SIN FRONTERAS (without borders). Whether a plea or a demand, the slogan seems more appropriately a dream. Rich man, poor man, Anglo and Hispanic. They might well rub shoulders along this frontier, but they are still set apart by more than just a river, a fence or a line of marker posts...
MINNESOTA. Democrat Hubert Humphrey III cried out to voters to stop comparing him with his beloved late father and start weighing him against his opponent, Senator Dave Durenberger. They have, and it may be helping. "Skip" Humphrey, the state's attorney general, has been slinging dirt at Durenberger on character issues. But Durenberger's senatorial bearing and flawless environmental record have given him a lead. If Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer- Labor Party is of a mind to, it could still rescue Humphrey...