Word: squeakings
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...space, no one can hear you squeak. Scientific progress has claimed the lives of 45 baby rats aboard the space shuttle Columbia, five times the expected death toll, after the mothers of these experimental rodents refused to suckle their young. It's a pretty serious blow, not least for the brain development tests astronauts were hoping to run. Now NASA is set to placate the fears of animal rights groups with an official rat death inquiry...
...expense--for instance, every room of his government dacha had a television set--themselves stole billions; those who were indignant that he sought advice from his wife managed to set up their closest relatives with high-level, well-paid state jobs. All the pygmies of previous years, afraid to squeak in the pre-Gorbachev era, now, with no risk of response, feel justified in insulting...
...cagers handed Columbia a 66-61 loss, and just managed to squeak out a 65-63 win over Cornell after squandering an 18-point lead...
Cases in point: Ken Griffey, Jr. and Bernie Williams, the junior circuit's centerfield heirs to the throne. Griffey, who managed 56 home runs and 147 RBI, could only squeak out two hits and a .133 batting average against the Birds. And his vaunted gold glove came up a bit short when Roberto Alomar, predictably enough, welcomed Bobby Ayala from the chamber-of-horrors Seattle bullpen with a shot to the centerfield wall that Junior couldn't quite handle...
Welcome to the W.N.B.A., the Women's National Basketball Association, or the N.B.A.'s baby sister. On the court, the sneakers squeak with the same urgency as they do in the N.B.A., the coaches yell, "Why isn't that a foul?" at the refs, and the players get fined for roughhousing--though the $500 recently assessed against Nancy Lieberman-Cline of the Phoenix Mercury for holding Jamila Wideman of the Los Angeles Sparks by the neck equals what Dennis Rodman spends in a year for eyeliner...