Word: baton
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Petersen-Sundquist campaign faced budget-hampering penalties yesterday after committing campaign infractions involving postering, e-mailing, and financial reporting.But all of this seemed commonplace compared to accusations leveled against the rival Hadfield-Goldenberg campaign earlier this week for a showier, more high-flown gaffe—baton twirling.“Somebody complained that a campaign was using a baton–a twirler’s baton–in front of the Science Center, and they were not reporting the baton as a campaign expense,” said Joshua G. Allen ’09, who chairs...
...then-ruling Kuomintang, which came to be known as the Kaohsiung Incident. She is a fiery speaker, and can easily attract hundreds of supporters to public rallies. And she's running a campaign that emphasizes her ties to Hsieh's powerful legacy - her supporters carry signs that say, "Good baton, pass it on." During his six years in office Hsieh led a major cleanup of Kaohsiung's Love River, turning the polluted waterway that runs through the heart of the city into a regional attraction that even Huang acknowledges is a success...
...guards enter the vestibule and order the inmate to strip. After a cavity search, he dresses again and his hands are cuffed through an opening in the bars that separate the vestibule from the rest of the cell. The guards then march him down the corridor, a steel-tipped baton at the ready. When all the prisoners are lined up, they are led to an outdoor recreation area enclosed by 25-ft. walls. If they look straight up through the chain mesh that encloses the top of the yard, they can see a patch of the blue Colorado...
When Harris traded in his mallets for the conductor’s baton on “Grand Unification Theory,” excessive aspiration sometimes edged out simple musicality. “African Tarantella” is no different: the simple appeal of the blues is often buried under the weight of ambition. When sparser arrangements allow the musicians to stretch out, the album succeeds; when lush orchestrations dominate, the music loses clarity and distinction...
...another record Saturday, but this time it was not just senior running back Clifton Dawson leading the way.At halftime, the Harvard band put on a show that included the largest baton ever, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records, at ten feet.Dawson was the next to tack a record onto his already impressive resume. With 3:44 left in the third quarter, the back ran for his 52nd career rushing touchdown, tying him with Brown graduate Nick Hartigan for first on the all-time Ivy League list. The win was also Harvard head coach Tim Murphy?...