Word: bane
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...House in Hackensack, N.J., where Sarah Hughes trains, her coach Robin Wagner took one look at me and shook her head. "I've got a coat and some gloves in my office; you'll need those." She was right. I spent hours watching Wagner and Hughes break down the bane of Hughes's existence, the Lutz jump. Judges had penalized Hughes repeatedly for taking off on the wrong edge, and as painstakingly frustrating as it was, Hughes practiced the jump over and over--and over and over. It was my first hint at the type of competitor Hughes is. Even...
More than free-throw shooting, more than road games and even more than Kyle Wente, one thing continues to be the bane of the Harvard men’s basketball team’s existence—the zone defense...
...come to dread checking my mail. No, I have no irrational fears about contracting anthrax. Rather, I have come to fear the arrival of that bane of Harvard students’ existence—the phone bill. It seems that every time I check my mailbox, there it is again, the innocuous looking envelope with the pink sheets of astronomical fees and the orange envelope of doom that screams expectedly for yet another check. But, no matter how many I pay, the Harvard Student Telephone Office (HSTO) continues to inundate my mailbox with these annoying envelopes...
Ready? Let's go. In the beginning, writing is difficult. Maybe it's just me; my handwriting was the bane of my schoolteachers and has gotten progressively more illegible ever since. The thickness of the chrome-colored Chatpen doesn't help. Worse, my normal writing grip - I use my middle finger to hold up the pen - obstructs the camera. As I try out a new grip, my first scribbles are ugly scratches. Wiebe encourages me to write large, looping letters. This helps considerably. Soon, I can write comfortably at normal speed...
...coalition wins a majority in both houses with his own party so much stronger than its partners, then it's a relatively stable government that could last the full five-year term. It's noteworthy that Italian voters punished small parties in this election. They've long been the bane of Italian politics, because with 3 percent of the vote you could make or break a government. But besides the hard-line communists, who scored 5 percent, all of the smaller parties suffered at the polls. This time the voters opted for the larger parties on both the left...