Word: strung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yesterday and the Parliament and City Hall in Port-au-Prince today in anticipation of pro-Aristide Haitian legislators' return. The first U.S. fatality also surfaced today when a patrol found an American soldier who had apparently killed himself in a mansion being prepared for Haitian dignitaries. Military police strung concertina wire in front of the white colonnaded Parliament, where the lawmakers are expected to vote on an amnesty for the military junta -- a key part of the quickie deal between capo Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and former President Jimmy Carter...
...commanders rushed out to transmit the order that commenced Operation Overlord, the invasion of Western Europe. His own duty was done for the day. He went down to a pier in Portsmouth to watch British soldiers board their landing craft. The biggest fleet in history -- 59 convoys strung over 100 miles, led by six battleships, 22 cruisers and 93 destroyers -- set sail toward the beaches of Normandy between 60 and 100 miles away...
...hall mark of this mysterious generation, OK touts itself in small letters as "a carbonated 'beverage,'" with the last word in quotes--the hipsters who make "OK," one assumes, are too cool to use that technical word with a straight face. The slogan completes the pitch--no hi-strung shrill jingos here--"Everything is going...
...strung six or seven hits together, just a bunch of singles," Crowley, who went 3-3 with an RBI, said...
...Crimson strung together nine hits in the fifth through eighth innings after being no-hit through four, but a freak groundout to third that deflected off Northeastern pitcher John Forneiro, and two hard-hit double-plays ended three of those rallies. (Harvard scored in the other inning, the sixth, off of Jamie Crowley's triple into the right-center...