Word: strung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inertia of the same kind has befallen fans nationwide. For six of the last eight years, the championship was a given and ratings were high. For four months, teams of lawyers, cell-phone-toting players' union representatives strung us along us along, finally gracing us with a season when the financial consequences of doing otherwise were too grave to bear...
...seemed like the murder of Matthew Shepard might have been enough. It seemed like the sight of a young man strung up on a fence post by vicious killers simply because he was gay might have been enough to prompt the state legislature in Wyoming to enact hate-crimes legislation. In the wake of the killing, in the wake of the national outcry that followed, it seemed like the obvious fact--that violence motivated by racial, ethnic or sexual bias warrants extra punishment--was on the verge of acceptance...
Harvard, which had lost four of five, strung together consecutive wins for the first time since December...
Then Northeastern strung together twoconsecutive power play goals as Harvard committedfour penalties in the first 13 minutes of thegame...
...from Moscow for her mother to wash. Genius, you see, must be accommodated on many levels. This is because the romantic view of the creative life has long since taught us that prodigious talent is always delicately balanced, always in danger of paying a tragic price for its high-strung ways, always in need of indulgence...