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Fun times lie ahead, and we haven’t even considered Frank Lampard’s touchline hairtrigger going off yet again.

She’s still Woodbury’s biggest cheerleader, forgetting that the place is basically home to an angry mob with hairtrigger tempers who only hours before were baying for blood, and pitting brother against brother.

The pressures have mounted in recent years as crack has poured into the inner cities, giving rise to drug-dealing gangs armed with automatic weapons -- and the hairtrigger temperament to use them.

What form of midsummer madness lay ahead of him depended now upon the hairtrigger of impulse.

He left Leath Macha in an attitude of hairtrigger contemplation, apparently about to begin something at once.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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