Word: strung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is exquisitely inconceivable. After spending millions of dollars coaxing hundreds of thousands of smokers into making one of the most difficult decisions of their life, the three U.S. patch distributors failed to produce enough to go around. Recent quitters, a high-strung group in the best of times, suddenly found themselves in an unnerving game of musical patches. "It's like a suicide hot line with a busy signal," says Jan Westmier, a former self-described chimney from Berkeley who finally got a supply of patches last month. Seattle carpenter Robert Gould just gave...
...wake up in the middle of the night. I'm not strung out. You see, I have a very strong feeling that we all have a thermostat setting on stress...
First-year students awoke yesterday morning to find a flavorful new decoration flying above the South Yard: a sign made of 130 pizza box emblazoned with the words "Long Live Neil" strung between two fire escapes from Weld Hall to Matthews Hall...
...years of silence on the subject of class. For the first century or so, the whole concept of class was derided as something foreign and decadent, along the same lines as male cologne, and inappropriate to a nation with an open frontier. Mention of the word could get you strung up or shunned by the politically correct. Later, in the 1950s, use of the word class joined vegetarianism and folk dancing as one of many telltale signs of communist leanings. Hence Senator Philip Gramm's recent denunciation of the Democrats as latter-day communists, "trying to create the same class...
...there are problems with the bells, it is because of a lack of funding. Recently we have had to jury-rig several of the bells with our own hands on account of the bell-ropes breaking from age. Others should be re-strung, but we are unable to reach them. As a result, four of the highest tones are currently unavailable for use. However, the bells still represent the only set of Russian bells in the Western Hemisphere, and are one of the few sets extant in the world...