Word: strung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...palm of their hands-cool-headed operators that are responsible for the safety of millions everday. Adventurous people who thrive on an atmosphere of high pressure and anxiety. Stressed-out husbands who are in the midst of third marriages and never have time for their families. And high-strung workers who are only human. They, too, can let personal problems manifest themselves into rivalries...
...Crimson strung together four runs in the fourth to tie the game at 4-4, fashioning two of Columbia's six errors into three unearned runs. Sophomore leftfielder John Portman delivered a sacrifice fly, while Carey's double and freshman third baseman Mark Mager's infield single kept the rally rolling...
...Crimson strung together four runs in thefourth to tie the game at 4-4, fashioning two ofColumbia's six errors into three unearned runs.Sophomore leftfielder John Portman delivered asacrifice fly, while Carey's double and freshmanthird baseman Mark Mager's infield single kept therally rolling...
There's another option being explored in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles. At night, what used to be dark hillsides are strung with lights from new tract housing. Those twinkling lights worked on Steve Bennett, a soft-spoken high school history teacher, until he'd had enough. Three years ago he co-founded SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources) to get antisprawl initiatives on the ballot. It took just nine weeks last year for Bennett and his allies to collect the 75,000 signatures they needed. In November, large majorities in four of Ventura's five largest cities...
Monica's Story is a collection of refrigerator-magnet cliches strung together over 280 pages, until you want to scream if she says, "I love the little boy in him," one more time. Grab a few of her dippy observations at random--"I cried myself to sleep," "I saw him as a man, not as the President," "He promised me he would [fill in the blank]"--add bathos, and you have a typical paragraph. Repeat three times, and you have a page. Spritz with psychobabble and enough self-improvement rhetoric to fuel a Weight Watchers convention, and you have...