Word: wiring
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...essentially meaningless adjective in the earliest months of an election year, but a self-fulfilling prophecy when many people believe whatever their TV anchor tells them. In one glaring example of an obituary published before death, the CBS affiliate in Jacksonville, Fla. posted on its website a Knight-Ridder wire story announcing Dean’s Wisconsin loss, comparing his campaign to a “plummeting comet,” at 8:42 in the morning on Feb. 17, just hours after the Wisconsin polls had opened and long before even preliminary results were available. Knight-Ridder is widely...
...Every win has come down to the wire this season,” sophomore forward Matt Stehle said. “That’s kind of been our MO this season: play tough on Saturday...
With its thrilling 75-73 victory against Liberty earlier in the season in double overtime, the Crimson has struggled in these down to the wire finishes and hopes to change this pattern heading into this final stretch of league play...
...night carousing; in Miami. On the trans-Atlantic voyage to the 1936 Olympics, Holm spent an afternoon shooting dice with sportswriters and then stayed up late for "a few glasses of champagne." Her expulsion from the team made headlines, and Holm ended up writing about the Games for a wire service. She then acted in Tarzan's Revenge and performed in impresario-husband Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME. Holm retained her freewheeling spirit into old age; she told Bill Clinton during...
Five more penalties were called in the second, but only one was whistled in the third. What had begun as a physical battle came down to the wire as a goalies’ duel...