Word: umpteenth
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...remaining songs on the album compose something of a grabbag. "Blinded By Rainbows" highlights, for the umpteenth time on the album, Richards' competent yet distinctively out-of-place acoustic guitar playing. The Stones used to have no trouble finding mixes of acoustic and electric instruments that still rocked like crazy, all the way back to the insertion of sitar in "Paint It Black". Now that particular finesse seems to have dropped by the wayside...
...Knicks, even if they fall to the Bulls for the umpteenth year in a row, made it to the second round despite not having too much talent and injuries to key players like John Starks...
...only the rattled citizens of the real Los Angeles could be quite so blase. If only they could take their umpteenth aftershock so much in stride. Instead they are suffering sharp and lingering emotional tremors from the 6.8- magnitude Northridge earthquake on Jan. 17 that killed 57 people and caused $15 billion in damage -- and they don't mind showing it. The original hyperactivity -- and some panic -- has been followed by delayed shock and a period of numbness, and now, more than a month later, by an abiding anxiety. Few doubt that Los Angeles has been taking it harder than...
...that we are not optimists at all? On the contrary, we're desperate because of the obvious fact that, once again, nothing will be done. Again, the cunning Serb President Slobodan Milosevic, along with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, will just take advantage of the situation for the umpteenth time to prepare new fortifications. When such powerful TV networks determine that we are pleased and optimistic in Sarajevo, then we simply have to become optimists...
Luckily, Co-Captain Liz Berkery, the season-long savior and Harvard's leading scorer for the umpteenth game, stepped up to score a key goal that put Harvard ahead again 8-7. And--finally!--he defense was able to clamp down the rest of the way to preserve...