Word: sprung
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...Frutkin, an Ottawa-based author of three poetry collections and six novels, writes like a fresco sprung to life. You can feel the warmth of the sirocco, the wind that carries fine sand from the Sahara; smell the musty parchment of Cambiati's secret library; and taste the bitter elixirs peddled by the traveling troupe in the town's piazza. The action is broken into short chapters, making the plot trot along at a jaunty clip. Through Cambiati's alchemy and Archenti's reason, Frutkin examines the science of magic and the magic of science. He also keeps...
Super Bowl Sunday looms so large on the sports calendar, it's natural that legends have sprung up around it. Can you tell fact from fiction, true from false? (Answers are below--don't peek...
...than passively accepting his fate, Jones, 67, is fighting back. A decade ago, when he and some fellow retirees realized that their pensions didn't include promised cost-of-living increases, they started the Association of BellTel Retirees, one of hundreds of groups of disaffected former employees that have sprung up in the U.S. to lobby for retirement benefits. As president of the BellTel group, Jones uses the Internet and e-mail to send daily newsletters and legislative alerts to the group's 110,000 members. He's also proven himself to be skilled at corporate politics, successfully orchestrating...
...Crimson killed off Paul Dufault’s tripping penalty at 9:23, but just two seconds after Dufault was sprung from the box, Reese was whistled for roughing, and Harvard couldn’t manage the kill for another two minutes. Daigneau never even reacted to Michael Genzy shot from the blue line that put Clarkson...
...realized that Harvard is not that fun, and it is not that intellectually stimulating, but amidst these broken dreams lay the shattered remains of a test tube, and out of this test tube there sprung forth a Humanzee [2] who knew how to have a sick time in a variety of ostensibly depressing situations...