Word: bout
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...every ability you have, from the smallest to the largest, to do what you can,” Haven said, rousing the roughly 80 persons in attendance to a prolonged bout of applause...
...mother, poet Sylvia Plath, took her life in 1963 after a bout of depression. After battling the same illness for many years, Nicholas Hughes, 47, an Oxford-trained fisheries biologist, hanged himself at his Alaska home on March...
...took Round 2 of yesterday’s bout to avenge last year’s heart-wrenching championship-game defeat. The Harvard softball team (19-9, 5-3 Ivy) dropped the first game of a doubleheader to reigning Ivy League champion Princeton (8-14, 3-5), 1-0, but the Crimson bats came alive in the second game, punishing the Tigers, 5-2. It was the second straight day that Harvard failed to score in the first game, only to be revived by freshman Whitney Shaw. As she did the day before, Shaw homered in the first inning...
...Scalding sun; fields of snow. Maurice Jarre created memorable anthems for these two extremes in his first films for David Lean: the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia and the 1965 Doctor Zhivago. The French composer, who died Sunday in Los Angeles at 84, after a losing bout with cancer, wrote the scores for more than 150 features, but he'll always be associated with Lean, as much as Bernard Herrmann is with Alfred Hitchcock or John Williams with Steven Spielberg. The director devises the images; the composer gives them emotional heft. Both the pictures and their accompanying sounds lodge indelibly...
...Harvard grappler fell to the mat, he not only suffered a match-ending pin, but was also forced to medically forfeit his consolation bout...