Word: bettered
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...when the two schools met on Jan. 2, it was Harvard who had the best player on the court: Jeremy S. Lin '10, whom Kolloen apparently hadn't heard of. “Had I been a better blogger,” he conceded, “I would’ve noticed that Harvard has a player named Jeremy Lin who is a pretty talented basketball player—and at this moment a better one than Garcia...
...attended the meeting. "I take that responsibility, and I take it very seriously," the President told his aides, making perfectly clear that there was no room for another series of errors. Shortly afterward, John Brennan, Obama's top White House counterterrorism aide, spoke. "There are things we could do better," he said. "I take my share of the responsibility in ensuring we have an up-to-date system that is agile and that challenges the assumptions the way this President wants...
...whole, travelers see a need for the beefed-up security, despite their concerns about its efficacy and sustainability. "I think a lot of the security measures that show up after something happens are kind of just to make people feel better," said a woman who travels frequently and went through "a little bit more [security] than usual" at Paris' Charles de Gaulle International Airport. "If I were a terrorist, I wouldn't plan an attack for the day after someone else's, because that would be stupid." (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
After less than two years of teaching at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin College in Brunei Town, John Wilson, better known as the English novelist Anthony Burgess, nearly lost his mind. The tropical climes nagged him as much as his wife Lynne, whose zany behavior, like cursing out the Duke of Edinburgh, had turned them both into social pariahs. Add to that a bottle-of-gin-a-day drinking habit, and Burgess was pretty much pickled by September 1959, when an agreement was signed granting internal self-governance to Brunei, then a British protectorate. That month, Burgess one day crumpled...
...what Israel's government is prepared to offer remains too large to bridge; therefore, trying to force both sides to tip their hands could fatally weaken a Palestinian leader who is already politically enfeebled by years of fruitless negotiations. The reasoning appears to be that it may be better to sustain the process than bring it to an unpalatable conclusion...