Word: threaded
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Rose--who threw two interceptions in this game, one that was returned for a touchdown--had to thread his touchdown pass between three Mountain Hawk defenders who missed tackling Taylor as soon as he touched the ball...
...often not until grandchildren arrive that parents who had given up hope finally see the last boxes carted out the door. "When people begin to feel very secure in their lives," Billingham says, "they can feel O.K. snipping that final thread to home...
...relates his own fascination with cartography and reveals that as a child, he had an uncommonly keen sense of direction. Famous mapmakers of the past are resurrected and given thumbnail biographies. The sequential digressions are occasionally diverting, but some readers, trying to maintain a grip on the story's thread, may conclude, alas, that magazine editors serve a purpose...
McLaughlin says that there is a common thread running through his career at the two institutions...
...economic crises have a tangled skein of causes, but the thread of this one starts in the early '90s. After the Persian Gulf War, as Middle East producers pumped their way to recovery, the price of crude oil dropped steadily, then stayed low for nearly a de- cade, fueling the global economic boom. By early '99, a barrel of oil clocked in at just...