Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoking each day, and tobacco-related disease will kill half of them. But what about the rest of the world? Those new smokers--60,000 a day--could be on their own. Tobacco-state Democratic Senators Ernest Hollings of South Carolina and Wendell Ford of Kentucky have moved to strike language that would constrain exports and cost jobs in farming and manufacturing here...
...nuns finished the day by leading the chantsat a candlelight vigil in front of Au Bon Pain inHolyoke Center to show support for six Tibetanswho started a hunger strike in New Delhi on March10, the Tibetan National Uprising...
Umpiring behind the plate is even harder, because your mind begins to play tricks on you. You begin to root for balls and strikes, your strike zone shifts arbitrarily by batter, or even by pitch, and you start to make make-up calls, and then make-up make-up calls. One time I got caught dozing and a kid walloped a ball 250 feet. I looked up to see it tailing rapidly, about 15 feet above the left field foul pole. I suppose some folks would have called it a three-run homer, but I just called it a foul...
That same day, in the midst of battle, I flanked the boy with yellow teeth and sidearmed a perfect strike at his head. I knew I'd nailed him the instant the rock left my fingers. The missile struck him in the temple, and he clutched his head and fell to his knees, blood gushing through his fingers. I fled in horror, and the war was over. But I secretly cherished a certain involuntary glow of pleasure at the perfect bull's-eye I'd thrown...
Last year's April Fool's issue claimed that a Vincent Van Gogh painting housed in the Yale University Art Gallery was a forgery. And the year before, the Herald announced, in the midst of a bitter strike by Yale's dining services employees, that the McDonald's restaurant chain would take over the school's dining halls...