Word: began
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...Baker began with an informal survey of the demographics of the audience, resulting in a discovery that out of the about 50 students in the room, only about three students were, in fact, Massachusetts voters...
...began to pity other girls who didn’t have glasses. Ha! How could those pedestrian fools be taken seriously in the world of academia, I would think to myself, fogging my spectacles and gingerly polishing them with my scarf...
They found me on an average stroll through Urban Outfitters. With no luck in the clothing department, I began mindlessly thumbing through the racks of neon sunglasses. One pair in particular beckoned me, though it was the plainest of the bunch: they were faux reading glasses with black frames and clear lenses. I pulled them on like armor. My metamorphosis had finally arrived. I was no longer the airhead, I was the coveted, feared, admired intellectual. I immediately bought them...
This movement shifted when the leagues themselves began to use these scores of cameras to review close or critical calls made by officials, most notably by the National Football League. After several highly publicized examples of officials making incorrect calls, the league instituted an instant replay official in 1986 to monitor each play. In the current format, head coaches have the ability to challenge the ruling of two different plays during a game that they feel video replay would give evidence to support a change of result. Whichever way the call eventually goes, most teams—and more importantly...
Sullenberger began his remarks by expressing his admiration for the University as “a temple of learning,” and joked that he wished that he had not needed to go to such great lengths to get here...