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The 27-year-old had envisioned something more tropical when she signed up to participate in her second “Run Across Haiti,” an ambitious eight-day, 200-mile tour of the impoverished Caribbean nation sponsored by the nonprofit organization WORK.
From Washington Times • May 25, 2020
Good God, with all the agonizing in these comments about various situations in offices -- when the hell is anyone doing an actual WORK?
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2017
WARD’S WORK: Houston quarterback Greg Ward Jr. leads the conference by averaging 336.8 yards passing and has thrown for 11 touchdowns and ran for six more.
From Washington Times • Oct. 14, 2016
"NEEDS A LOT OF WORK" "I think this show needs a lot of work," Ron Ruff, 52, of Fenton, Michigan, told Reuters after the show.
From Reuters • Apr. 3, 2011
And a vicious fate it was to be: now he was faced with the perversion of having to GO TO WORK.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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