Word: bowles
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Competing in the first ballroom dance competition of the year, the participants exchange nervous glances with one another, as women find the arms of their partners and move onto the floor of the Currier Fish Bowl. Classical waltz music begins pumping through the speakers and the dancers take the floor. The competition, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dancing team, begins...
...elegant performance, Yale receives the evening's big bounty: a package of Smartfood. Harvard may have just missed out on the tasty treat, but most dancers say they came to the Fish Bowl for something more than all-natural munchies...
...with a mane of white hair beckoning them to turn in on a Saturday afternoon, park their cars, fill the 85,500 seats at Stanford Stadium and watch him lead the local student athletes to the promised land. Which, in the vernacular of Stanford football, means the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena on January...
Sportswise, that was a dynasty with substantial heft. It lasted the better part of a decade and led to three triumphs in the Super Bowl. As a result, Walsh first had the cloak of greatness draped around his shoulders. Then, as the championships accumulated, the purveyors of hyperbole whisked it away and replaced it with the heavier mantle that bore the title "genius." The fact that Walsh on occasion used words such as "sublime" to describe the play of his team certainly set him apart from those in the pro-football fraternity, whose grammatical constructions often drift toward the martial...
Washington will be favored comfortably when Walsh takes his team to Seattle for the game that will probably decide who goes to the Rose Bowl. If Walsh manages to upset the odds again and bring home a victory, there are some at Stanford who feel that it would be time to re-examine the question of genius. "If he beats Washington," says Professor Krasner, "all questions will have been answered. We will deify...