Word: abreast
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...racially-mixed crowd of students, most from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), walked two and three abreast in a line that stretched more than a quarter-mile long...
Cambridge politics is important to all of us. Harvard students should make an effort to keep abreast of local issues. And those who are registered in Cambridge should vote...
Robinson discussed how demographic shifts should affect American business leaders' management styles. He said that executives often have failed to keep abreast of changes in the composition of the workforce...
...little traffic on the road, a strip of patched macadam that bisects the valley and climbs slowly through the trees to disappear in the direction of the Hungarian border. A pair of covered Gypsy wagons comes into view, each pulled by a stocky horse. As the wagons draw abreast, the driver of the first lifts his hat and waves. The second driver has stretched out and gone to sleep, the reins held loosely in hands clasped over his ample stomach...
That angered teachers, who argued that the policy would undermine their efforts to keep students abreast of history in the making. After an outcry in the media, school officials dashed off a new version of the test to the printers in time for the April examination. Now a student who says Soviet citizens can vote for "candidates of their choice" will be credited with the correct answer...