Word: strike
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...meet the same man. Brewer then crept up behind her and dispatched his victim. After such a ruthless kill, Brewer apologized and asked if he could buy the girl ice-cream. She declined and went back to the library. FlyBy is no dating expert but identity theft does not strike us as the best way to get a girl. But Brewer does get the prize for FlyBy's favorite kill...
...FARROW on hunger strike for Darfur. Darfur to Farrow: "Well, if you're not going to eat that...
...that attempts, much less achieves, what used to be called a tragic dimension. Irony you can find in any gallery these days, as well as low comedy, puerile cool and enigma. But in a time that has its share of suffering, where is the art that tries to strike an equivalent note? What we have almost no language for anymore, at least not in painting, is acute pain. Except in room after room of this magnificent show...
...prepared to be rotation mainstays in the future. This is not to say that the Crimson played great baseball this year. Harvard had a penchant for digging its own grave—its defense committed too many untimely errors and its pitching staff threw too many balls outside the strike zone, as well as too far into it. Eventually the team’s bats returned to Earth and its flaws proved too numerous. The Crimson blew any chance it had at the Ivy League title by losing four-straight games to Brown two weekends ago. But Harvard proved...
Birds are the natural reservoirs of the common flu strains that strike in winter - and those strains reassort themselves to hit humans particularly hard. But while humans are not susceptible to every strain of avian flu, pigs definitely are. When bird flu viruses replicate in pigs, they pick up the viral machinery that gives more selective flu strains the power to spread to other mammals, like us. That's what makes pigs such potent mixing bowls for flu. The roundabout bird-pig-human route may be less common than the straight bird-human jump, but it may be more problematic...