Word: spiraling
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...students queue around the spiral staircase leading up to the Quincy checker desk, staff members know what's in store for them...
...that it, then? Are we there? Have we slipped, silently and unaware, into our death spiral...
...seems that Robertson Davies' 1992 novel The Fifth Business (part of the Deptford Trilogy) is becoming all the rage again--specifically the meaning of that cryptic title. The Fifth Business refers to that all important character in a dramatic form that causes all the action to spiral out of control--without realizing it. Thus, you have the four "businesses"--the protagonist (Clinton), the antagonist (Starr), the love interest (Monica) and the figure presiding over the resolution (Hillary). And then you have the "fifth business"; in the Clinton scandal, it would be the secretary who unwittingly gave Monica Lewinsky that first...
...exacted his cooperation in cracking down on terrorist training cells in Afghanistan. But Washington had come to believe that Sharif was digging his own grave and dragging his country into it. "Things were basically falling apart," says former CIA chief Robert Gates. "It had been a steady, slow, downward spiral...
Falling to No.8 Duke 3-1, Princeton continued its downward spiral with a humiliating 8-2 rout courtesy of No.2 Maryland, and may have hit rock bottom being shutout by Syracuse 1-0, a team it beat 7-0 last year...