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Scott Oldford: It’s like crowd sourcing your editing, which is not a bad idea.

... armed forces who had soured on Mr. Maduro's authoritarianism.

They need to do really, really well.” Unfortunately for the congressional G.O.P., unpopular Presidents sow midterm fiascos.

Crops are being sown, hoed, reaped, milled, plowed, all in one picture.

... stimulation plan for the sows.

Soy, parsley, garlic, grapes, berries.

There is 160 million acres of corn and soybeans planted just in the Midwest of the United States.

Spanking mags?

The book persuasively illustrates what an ineffectual congressman he was, apart from cozying up to the Koch brothers, Betsy DeVos and other rich Republican donors; the clumsiness and vanity of his one term as governor of Indiana, for which he did som

sparkles.” Right?

... up and down the sparkling turquoise waters of the...

People I’d sparred with on Twitter would come out to the picket line to see me when I protested in their city.

We see the sparring over the South China...

... escalation of a political spat with the United States...

... that curiosity can also spawn a kind of generosity...

The ancient civilizations of the Middle East spawned a literary revolution that dramatically influenced the course of history.

... is say“ me no speaka' the language” and somehow...

... the devil, so they speared the five missionaries to...

The people in those camps are surrounded on all sides by so-called Janjaweed, these men on horseback with spears and Kalashnikovs.

“I didn't get any specialized training,” she told me.

... virtual and real is specious because guess what-- that...

PACARAIMA is a speck of a town in...

When the sun does come out—during Wimbledon, say, or for a spell in August—British people go reliably mad, take their tops off, and barbecue frantically for a few days, until the skies cloud over again.

and spew with him and yell at him and leave, because I like feeling

... just how much soot spews out of old engines.

Spirits and Spooks The typical tour guide spiel includes a heavily embellished history of a building’s former owner, the events leading up to the significant deaths, and anecdotes about recent sightings of ghosts, mysterious sounds, or curses that ha

No water to drink, except coming out of a spigot connected to the toilet.

That marks a sharp spike since 2014-2015, when applications were...

Recently, that fear spiked with false alarms that sent Hawaiians running for shelter this weekend, and a similar one sent mistakenly today in Japan.

... a couple of little spikes.

... desperate Venezuelans who are spilling over borders, overwhelming their...

If you want to make a spinach omelet then you have to add the cooked spinach to the egg mixture.

This worked, but still somewhat awkwardly. Then Croiviser had the insight to flip the axis upside down, turning it into a spindle.

Many raged against the conduct of that inquiry, accusing Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel, of abusing his powers, but the outcome demonstrated that a White House under investigation is in danger of spiralling into crisis.

He'd pop up and snatch the glasses off a classmate's face, or spit at the teacher.

... the United States in spite of it.

(“Wives are key, dude.”) That this message of uplift and responsibility was coming from the tobacco-spitting, crotch-grabbing, car-crashing, steroid-abusing antihero known as Nails, of all people, was part of the gonzo charm.

Paper Company was selling rolled, perforated (and medicated) toilet paper by 1885—and possibly as early as 1877. * A 1935 ad for Northern Tissue boasted that it was “splinter-free,” but this does not in any way suggest that all toilet paper prior t

Jill: So, yeah, we’re just completely spoiled here, obviously, that we have all these amazing appliances.

Did I then at least get my fair share of the spoils?

It’s quite interesting that, I think some of the Swiss people are ... they’re very spoilt with the mountains that they have, so they think the Jura, which is a smaller range, they think, you know, it’s not good enough for skiing, and they would prefer

... addresses are easy to spoof, the IRA accounts we...

And why would it spook them?

Spirits and Spooks The typical tour guide spiel includes a heavily embellished history of a building’s former owner, the events leading up to the significant deaths, and anecdotes about recent sightings of ghosts, mysterious sounds, or curses that ha

... ferns followed, to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.

... Rocket Man," Trump will spotlight how radically circumstances have...

... report published in June spotlighted serious human rights violations...

This week brings perhaps one of the most striking examples yet, and again spotlights Mr. Trump’s views on race.

... on October 19, 2017, Pan- STARRS spotted an object moving rapidly...

You've had three spotters.

... on Twitte r about spotting the warning signs and...

It could go spotty yellow and green.

... her outstretched arm and sprained her wrist.

... no permanent separate states sprang up as was the case...

... and finally applies a sprayable concrete mixture known as...

Modern irrigation devices, each capable of spraying 4.5 million liters of water a day, have produced a landscape dominated by geometric patterns of circular green islands of crops.

... the notches from loggers' springboards used for standing support...

But as steel wire became more common, inventors began to notice that it had just the right amount of springiness to be formed into various sorts of effective cliplike devices.

We’ll break off the branches of the spruce trees that are out there, the white spruce and lay them down in a mat that gives kind of a springy mattress below our sleeping bags.

A teacher who worked for five years at a GNETS program called Coastal Academy, in Brunswick, told me, “We always had a sprinkling of middle-class white kids, maybe two or three, but they didn't stay long.

That computation currently requires the use of a tiny, battery-operated computer along with sensors that determine the current gear and the speeds at which wheels, pedals, and sprockets are moving.

Unions use grievance processes, and a plethora of other specialists in dispute resolution have sprung up to fill in the void left by a ridiculously lengthy, expensive and incompetent State court system.

... a notion that has sprung up in several forms over...

“And as we change, we will work with our partners to do likewise” and spur new partnerships, the UN chief said, identifying five key areas:

But that’s a key part of what Trump’s taking credit for, that the tax cut has both spurred the stock market and will lead to more investment, more higher-paying jobs.

Flywheels are common in mechanical devices from potters' wheels to automobiles to clocks as a means of regulating or smoothing motion that comes in spurts.

Apparently, he was like sputtering back with the stuff...

the entrepreneurial spark often sputters, and process often drowns...

... Rio and São Paulo squabbling over lucrative new markets...

We got a small squad.

... your place is per square footage.

Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his armchair, his...

... tell by the power squat, I was a very...

... open mouths, lots of squawking.

... the thing about you squaws is that, uh Daddy!

... with anything or barely squeak by.

... that her mouse was squeaking-- making a squeaking noise.

... thighs and make me squeal like Monica Lewin Me,...

shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look."

You didn't become a squeegee kid.

... fischeri lives in this squid.

... the shape of the squiggles on the card to...

... we've been trained to squint into this legal microscope,...

It was possible, by squinting slightly, to sense two periods of British life—one grand and unequal and gone, the other democratic and contemporary and crowded—coexisting in the heat.

Everyone knew that the cheese on your cracker was supposed to have been squirted out of a can. Europeans, however, take cheese much more seriously.

At home I would have had a nice squishy mattress, a flush toilet, clean water, and no mosquitoes.

... database gave me completely staggered me.

... young black men in staggering proportions.

... lots of underemployment or stagnant wages, maybe even declining...

A large stain of grease on the...

... hundreds of these brown- stained blood vessels, capillaries that...

Some 3-D printers are restricted to creating plastic objects, but these basic principles have also been adapted to many other materials, including ceramics, wax... even stainless steel, titanium, and other metals.

staked a claim

And I think many of the conflicts and the subconflicts that have already been referenced, the Turks staking their claim and what their red lines are, the regime looking to regain control of Idlib, which is, as you see on the map, very, very centrally

your air, getting all of the stale air out of your body, then the inhale

01:22 Now, I study, even stalk, the old masters.

and needy and stalkerness for sure, but someone genuinely liking us

If You Can’t Eat ‘Em... Straw is what’s left over when grains like wheat, barley, or rice are harvested—basically the hollow stalks.

... job, in the ensuing stampede, as tens of thousands...

... get into a proactive stance and write to your...

A federal judge in Nevada has dismissed criminal charges against Cliven Bundy and his sons over an armed standoff with federal agents.

maybe standoffish to her because you’re kind of pissed off.

ganised from the Korean standpoint.

... two first of the stanza; but the purport of...

Or it may be that we continue to be enamored of our castles in the air, despite the knowledge of their illusory nature, as the last stanzas of Longfellow’s poem conclude: So I wander and wander along, And forever before me gleams The shining

In our household, the number one staple food, ahead of milk, butter, and flour, is coffee—our favorite brand being Illy, which produces especially good results in our superautomatic coffee machine.

Steve: Now the next word here is “staples” and this is a sentence from my book where I talked about France, which had its Mediterranean influence, and the sentence is “With the Romans came the staples of the Mediterranean culinary tradition.” Now are

... growing out in a starburst fashion.

... higher- value products like starch from cassava.

... upper strata of fruit stardom, based on different metrics...

... that we are not stardust, we are not golden...

We'd become a starfaring species.

The stark gaps that exist between...

... so close that Breakthrough Starshot project plans to send...

... gave her an intense star- struck gaze and answered," No,...

If your companions suddenly startle and fly away, it...

“So, you take this a lot?” When we finally disembarked, in Times Square, he seemed startled anew by the lights and the crowds, and said, “Look at all this, dude!

[shouting again] The sudden noise startles but as it — as you hear it a second time it startles less.

Now the Zondo commission, an inquiry headed by South Africa's deputy chief justice, has begun hearing startling evidence of how control of the country was ceded to a cartel of the former president's cronies, a process with its own neologism, “state c

Under this system, a company maintains a stash of gold securely in a bank vault somewhere.

His personal physician, Harold N. Bornstein, issued brief, celebratory statements—Trump’s lab-test results were “astonishingly excellent”—mentioning little more than a daily dose of aspirin and a statin.

... every October, it's a statutory holiday, you spend it...

The uncle dropped a sack of grain he was about to pour into the mill hopper, picked up a barrel stave, and started toward the child with an expression on his face that indicated trouble.

Be happy with what you have, and change not for the mere sake of changing - by these words I steadfastly stand.

... people have heard of stealth startup, started a stealth...

The consequences of a simmering global trade dispute have been “almost unnoticeable” for US consumers, Mr Trump claimed, arguing that steep import duties have allowed his administration to forge a “very strong bargaining position”.

They cannot think in terms of riches, because their thought habits have been steeped in poverty, want, misery, failure, and defeat.

Invest the time and money, if you`ve got to buy a sweatshirt or jacket or whatever, do whatever you have to do, get out and volunteer, be it for the symphony or whatever it might be to make contacts. Now, Volunteer Vancouver would steer you to

... the part that is steered towards preventing the bad...

... Brazil it is a stench.

... if you need a stent in an emergency situation,...

... of converting defeat into stepping stones to opportunity?

stepping up

... the international community to step up support for the Rohingya,...

On his way back he had to check the rabbit traps for the dinner stew.

Some people go so far as to say that if you’re not willing to undertake the responsibility of full-time dog ownership, you have no business becoming a short-term steward either.

... you've turned it into stewardship.

He owes his "stickability" to the lesson he learned from his "quitability" in the gold mining business.

stick up

think most of what they say is hilarious and I’m not going to stifle in a

... because it is truly stillness.

... and a wolf evolves stilt legs in Brazil.

... speak in a more stilted and unnatural manner.

... morphs in response to stimuli.

But yeah, stingrays and

Mark: If you’ve gone into the restaurant and you know that Rob Feeney is not there and it’s this other guy and there’s a big stink going on, already you’re looking for stuff to complain about, basically.

Market power, we don’t need no stinking markets, we got the world.

They have a distinctive odor, which is sometimes referred to as "nutty" or "musky"-or, by those of a less poetic bent, "stinky."

This was a time of rapid improvement in living standards and a high annual level of house construction. I enjoyed my stint at the Embassy because of my close involvement with my Japanese counterparts, especially those like the Ministry of Constr

... response to the turmoil stirred up by independence in America,...

” William Kristol, the editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard, one of the most prominent conservative critics of Trump, told me that the Administration’s failure to get any bills passed was stirring frustration.

Jessica: Well, normally when you go into a, into the doctor’s office, you wouldn’t usually get, well you would get your doctor all they do is check, give you check-ups or you know maybe take out stitches or something, not surgery.

In this writer’s experience, to take a dispute with a stockbroker to the court system would have cost more than a quarter of a million dollars and taken from five to ten years – however, a private mediator settled the matter within a few months for v

... Berlin, salivating over free stockings and chocolate?

... per cent of their stockpiles.

... to stick with the stodgy lawyers and just have...

"It’s better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bull than to be up

stomped out

stomping and smack talking.

Until that point, much of the public had not focussed on the slow, complex investigation, but interviews at the time show that Nixon’s stonewalling made people pay attention, and he never recovered.

Two difficulties stood in his way.

... cover of a joint- stool.

It consists of two main parts: an outer casing, which is hollow but closed on one end, and the piston itself—a rod or plunger that fits the hole in the casing perfectly and whose tip reaches almost, but not quite, to the stoppered end of the tube.

... Zehaf- Bibeau after he stormed the parliament building in...

In storybook fashion, he proceeded to throw three touchdowns, including a dramatic 41-yard toss in overtime, for a 26-23 victory.

... petals unfurling from the stowed position.

I strained to listen to the constant political...

Modern, commercial strains of banana don't have...

The term first entered English usage in 1818, when it was used to describe an occurrence of the phenomenon in the Strait of Messina, a narrow body of water between Sicily and the region of Calabria in southern Italy. Technically, fata morganas a

¶ 5 A green iceberg that stranded just west of the Amery Ice Shelf showed two distinct layers: bubbly blue-white ice and bubble-free green ice separated by a one-meter-long ice layer containing sediments.

Paul: Four strands.

If I knew who was responsible I would have strangled them.

The stranglehold of the gun lobby...

... down our faces, I strapped on these chunky legs...

... aren't there sort of strata title and committees that...

Steve: Anyway, we've strayed from the subject of...

... the interesting thing-- we're straying a bit from the...

... farms than there are stray pets, but yet, factory farming...

The dogs may have been strays, or they may have belonged to local residents—the people playing with them did not appear to be their owners.

... then propelling himself by streamlining-- very important.

Before sitting down, he started heading toward the corner of the room, and when someone asked where he was going, he held up his hands and said, “Demunification.” Although I had never heard that word before, I understood immediately what he was sayin

He resisted very strenuously and so they hit him again with the taser gun and while fighting with the man he died.

... air sewers and rubbish- strewn wastelands, frisking and interrogating...

... in Recife, Pernambuco's violence- stricken capital, agreed an iron...

Today we make a great stride for the fulfillment of a vision toward the day when two peoples divided by generations, by conflict, are bound now by peace.

... learning will make huge strides, and one day we...

The biggest source of strife I found is when...

strikes me as

But what’s most striking about this simulation of the world is the result it consistently produces.

... harm reduction and have stringent laws which punish drug...

string of enhancements

businesses that may be helpful to entrepreneurs of all stripes.

... have resigned or been stripped of leadership positions.

... orgasm by having someone stroke her eyebrow.

... you will, that I'm stroking your arm with this feather, as...

It’s not a mellow stroll in the park kind of, you know, I’m going to go out for some fun and an easy walk kind of thing.

... sleep in a moving stroller with complete silence.

In 1980, there were vast strongholds of elephant range in...

series of days strung together.

... then you kind of strutted around gloating...