Word: striking
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...plant in 1998 despite warnings by senior intelligence and security personnel that there was insufficient evidence linking it to either Osama Bin Laden or the manufacture of chemical weapons. Under pressure from international protest and media inquiries, administration sources have backpedaled substantially on both claims since the August 1998 strike, which, together with a similar raid on Bin Laden's Afghanistan camps, was launched in retaliation for the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. But the Times report also carries allegations from U.S. officials that Secretary of State Albright encouraged State Department intelligence analysts "to kill a report...
...Dodgers seemed poised to avenge this loss in Game Four after taking a 4-3 lead into the ninth. But Casey's apparent game-ending third strike on Tommy Henrich eluded luckless catcher Mickey Owen, and the Yankees rallied once more, for a 7-4 win. New York subsequently took Game Five to clinch a deflating Series for the Dodgers...
...Just four minutes after the Tiger's strike, Ingram once again took a feed from Nagle and took the lead 2-1 on an improbable shot...
...course, Murphy might have just chalked up Giampaolo's long strike to the wind...
...save for college but to buy a $400 leather jacket. So many kids skip their homework that most teachers stop assigning more than 15 minutes' worth: ask too much, push too hard, and the students will give up, drop out, become a menace to society. We have to strike a balance, the adults say. We have to be reasonable. We want them to enjoy themselves, have a certain freedom, before the world turns serious on them and there is no going back...