Word: unraveling
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When Smith lost his job at Chrysler in 1982, he was too young to collect Social Security so he took a new job as a security guard. Two years later, his world began to unravel. "Everything just went bad at one time. It waited until I got retired. If I had been working, it would have been different, but I had retired before everything started to happen...
Holder turned out to be right. As Torricelli tells it, when the crowd surrounding Lazaro's house in Little Havana heard that Elian was going to Washington the next day, "the cord began to unravel." There were angry rumors that Lazaro was "selling out." When an official car arrived at 8 a.m., Lazaro would not leave his bedroom. Eventually he said the family would not be going at all. Elian had refused to get dressed, Lazaro claimed; the boy didn't want...
Nyweide began to unravel in the fifth, however, when Yale captain Tony Coyne reached him for a single to center field. Nyweide balked the runner to second, and Eli third baseman Steve Duke advanced him to third on a successful bunt attempt. The next batter, right fielder Keith Reams, singled to left to bring the first run home...
...Please stay on this course," he told committee members. "Don't let it unravel and become the cookie jar it once...
Crockett began to unravel in the seventh, loading the bases with no outs. Lennon replaced him and got out of the inning with only one run having crossed the plate after Bruins catcher Ryan Hamill grounded into a double play...