Word: stringing
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However, due to Dartmouth's defense and a string of injuries that forced sophomore Chris Menick to carry the ball on all Harvard's rushes out of the backfield until late in the fourth quarter, Harvard could muster only 45 yards out of its running backs against Dartmouth...
...tough, mean and distinctly unfunny; a sullen bad guy who drank whiskey, smoked cigarettes and cuffed both men and women around. Parker got caught at the end of the novel, but an editor spotted a likely series hero and persuaded Westlake to rescue him. The result was a string of 16 violent, moody and unrelievedly antisocial Parker adventures, which Westlake signed "Richard Stark," mostly because his own name was too closely tied to lighter-than-air capers of the Dortmunder kind...
...Symphony Hall had been disappointed by the lack of a visual spectacle to accompany the delivery of their aural divertissement, they now realized that the best had truly been saved for last. The music itself was enough to enthrall the listeners, but even the juxtaposition of flowing harp and string lines in the Adagietto against the hysteria of Mahler's militaristic finale paled against one man's unearthly presence. Jacket strained across his back, he quavered with emotion, pressing his fingers to his lips to evoke a sense of the bellissimo in the Adagietto; in the frenzied phrases...
...with a string of recent murders and a governor who strongly supports capital punishment, the death penalty is once again being considered by the government as a solution to crime...
...with a string of recent murders, including that of 10-year-old Cambridge boy Jeffrey Curley--fresh on the public's mind, the issue is now surging to the surface...