Word: banters
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...would need to beat Princeton in Jadwin or else face the prospect of a neutral site do-or-die playoff game against a team that went 2-11 against non-conference competition.All of a sudden, the “seeding watches” that have dominated most of the banter involving bored Ivy basketball fans would be halted momentarily to watch the league teeter on the brink of the play-in game.And all it would take is one—and only one—Yale win to make March meaningful again.With that, let’s get to this...
...more serious than at Pizza Q. That’s not to say they’re all business—they aren’t afraid to laugh with actors, especially those they know, and their discussion when the actors were out of the room was the light banter of close friends, covering everything from theater to Thanksgiving. Still, they missed no detail. Executive Producer Zoe M. Savitsky ’07 gives each actor, even friends of the production team, a carefully rehearsed speech after every audition that details the information they need for callbacks and encourages them...
...that fires 950 rounds a minute, but she is more vulnerable than the men inside the humvee's armored shell to sniper bullets and shrapnel from roadside bombs. As the convoy rolls down the back roads, Swenson and the guys in her humvee keep up an easy, comradely banter, joking about the Iraqi kids they see along their patrol: one boy moves like a hip-hop dancer, another like a ninja fighter. Swenson says, "What I'll remember isn't threatening Iraqis with my machine gun but seeing the children wave as we go by," and then adds that "sometimes...
Worst of all, journalists pounced on this criticism and covered it at the expense of honoring Mrs. King. In newspapers and on television programs across the country, an otherwise moving tribute to her and her legacy was overshadowed by coverage of this tasteless partisan banter...
...needle Kyles about the relative status of his invitations. "Anybody'd rather come to Atlanta than go to Columbus," he said. He shifted tone to inquire how Memphis churches achieved such unity behind the sanitation workers, who were not members of the prestige congregations, but Abernathy reopened preachers' banter on the subject of food, making clear his preference for soul food over fancier fare. "All right now Billy, I don't want you fooling me," he said, warning that if he went all the way to the Kyleses' home for T-bone steaks or filet mignons, which he pronounced "FEEL...