Word: arching
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...industrial town of Gateshead, in northeast England, picked a design for a new pedestrian and bike bridge to connect Gateshead with the historic city of Newcastle across the winding river Tyne, they decided that a break from tradition was in order. For most of the day, a single steel arch vaults high above the water, fixed by 18 harplike suspension cables to a 413-ft.-long, curved pathway below. When a boat approaches, however, the entire bridge pivots to one side. As the lower deck rises into the air, the upper arch descends on the other side until both halves...
Wrapping up a historic season, the Harvard football team (9-0, 7-0 Ivy) defeated arch rival Yale (3-6, 1-6) by a 35-23 margin on Saturday at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. Even though Harvard led throughout The Game, the Crimson was never able to completely shake the pesky Bulldogs until a Harvard goal-line interception with less than a minute remaining. Before Saturday, no Harvard football team in the last 88 years had finished a season with no losses or ties. The victory also gave the Crimson sole possesion of the Ivy League Championship...
...assuming that its audience knows the complex history behind the characters. Aside from the prerequisite villain, the unpleasant characters that readers love to hate from the books don’t seem nearly as vile as they do in Rowling’s books. Both Harry’s arch-nemeses at Hogwarts, the spoiled Draco Malfoy and the leering Potions Professor Severus Snape, are given limited exposure time in the film, thus de-emphasizing the obvious tension that exists between the characters in the book. We see no trace of Snape’s sincere hatred...
...needed introduction. Hearing of these additions, New York University Press finally agreed to publish the collection. When Blacks at Harvard appeared in 1993, the book’s title page sported not the “Veritas” crest, but with the NYU Press logo--the Washington Square arch...
...Alonzo-Mourning-style, and ends up breaking his shooting hand. The loss of its starting point guard and the subsequent internal animosity result in the Blazers finishing the season with the seventh best record in the West and a first round playoff exit at the hands of their arch-nemesis, the LA Lakers...