Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Warning signs sprout on trees along the unpaved roads. FROST HEAVES . . . BUMPS . . . CLOSED. Only the foolish travel back roads without chains, winches and, for real safety, four-wheel drive. Brookfield has 76 miles of town road, and only four miles are paved. Citizens who are dissatisfied with the correlation between taxes paid and quality of road surface tend to complain. As a consequence, many road commissioners and some selectmen in Vermont tend to acquire unlisted telephone numbers after about a year of public service...
Jakovic's whole athletic career has been a series of challenges since her high school teammates nicknamed her "Sprout". At 5'3", she's usually the smallest player on her team...
Rain has cancelled the softball game against Massasoit. The cold and wet has driven most of the team's players back into their rooms, but Ellen "Sprout" Jakovic-the Crimson's best pitcher and hitter-remains at the ITT to work on the Nautilus...
From that nadir, Crimson pitcher. Ellen "Sprout" Jakovic took over Although her teammates committed an abysmal six errors behind her, which resulted in eight unearned runs, the fast Jakovic pitched a gutsy game, closing the door on the Bears for the final four innings and allowing the Crimson to repent for its mistakes. With the score tied at 9-to-9 in the fifth the Bears put runners on first and third with two out. The game was in the balance, and Jakovic fought the Bears designated hitter to a 3 and 2 count before walking her. Then with...
...first thing to be said about Jerusalem, even if it has been said before, is that the ancient city is eternally new. In this magical place, sacred to three religions, the slopes outside the Jaffa Gate are ablaze with orange tulips, and rows of golden hyacinths sprout beneath the outstretching arms of the Moses Montefiore windmill. An unusual sight among the orange trees of the Mediterranean? "Ah, yes," a handsome Israeli woman sighs, "the Dutch sent us 100,000 bulbs when they moved away their embassy. So we planted them...