Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Begone, dull scruple! Sneak out of school and and enjoy this exuberant romantic romp...
...from-concentrate behemoths for profit. He hatches the dinosaurs on a Central American island and builds a theme park around them. Before the scheduled opening, a few guests -- including craggy paleontologist Alan Grant, lissome paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and Hammond's two young grandchildren -- come to Jurassic Park for a sneak preview. Then things go spectacularly wrong. The novel's first half is a controlled tram trip through this high-tech zoo, the second half a terror- filled obstacle course strewn with dinosaurs amuck: swooping pterodactyls, dilophosaurs that spit venom, a famished tyrannosaurus and a Panzer division of velociraptors, the meanest...
...carefully crafted conspiracy. We are a small pedal-to-the-metal staff of humans, after all. Even though our job is specifically to prevent mistakes from happening, Tarek and I aren't perfect either. Like lacrosse goalies, we handle shot after shot, but that odd one will sneak by us. The readers have set a high goal for us--to be perfect. And we do our damnedest to reach that goal...
Clarkson is also making a late-season push to sneak into the tournament, though its chance to secure an at-large bid (rather than the automatic one that comes with the ECAC tournament title) are considerably greater than St. Lawrence's. The Golden Knights recently reappeared in the national rankings, having won nine of 10 since January...
...That is the classic "we are all murderers" defense, and Wilkinson is wise not to push it. He is more effective when he takes a close look at Jackson's ex-wife Carolyn, the quintessential battered woman. Her husband was chronically brutal and unfaithful; for amusement he liked to sneak LSD into her food. Yet even now she proclaims her love and longs to ask him "what had happened, and if there's a hereafter I hope I have that chance...