Word: bracingly
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...told that my ACL and MCL were torn and that I would potentially lose my full year.”Martin, with only a walk-on backing her up, led the Crimson to a 5-1-0 start with three shutouts along the way. Kessler returned, wearing a heavy brace, in mid-November, and won her first two outings.Alternating starts for the remainder of the regular season, Martin and Kessler led Harvard to a 21-6-2 record. But playoff time meant decision time, and Stone awarded Martin the starting job for the team?...
Come August, Russians brace for trouble. This has become a habit since August 1991, when hard-liners attempted an abortive coup to squash Russia's budding democracy. It was in August 2000 that the Kursk submarine sank, and the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow caught fire. It was in August 1999 that apartment houses were bombed in Moscow, the second Chechen war started, and the political fervor it stirred helped usher Vladimir Putin to the presidency...
...poking its head up. In a startling interview with the Financial Times, John Negroponte, Deputy U.S. Secretary of State, said Qaeda is on the move in North Africa, as well as in the Sahel region, in such countries as Chad, Mali and Niger. Negroponte also said we should brace ourselves for a merger between Qaeda and the Algerian fundamentalists. I heard the same thing from a Libyan official, who said that one day in the near future Qaeda-associated groups could pose a threat to Libya's stability. Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia left a vacuum Qaeda is quickly filling...
...story is the same as that of many other military wives. My husband is well on the way to his third tour in Iraq. We have two little girls who barely know their father. Each time he deploys, I brace myself: he may not come home alive. This war is ridiculous. Our soldiers are worn out, the equipment is worn out, and so are our children. How long can we sustain this lifestyle? Every other year, until the war is over, my husband will be deployed. And when my soldier is home, he isn't resting. He is hard...
...story is the same as that of many other military wives. My husband is well on the way to his third tour in Iraq. We have two little girls who barely know their father. Each time he deploys, I brace myself; he may not come home alive. And when my soldier is home, he isn't resting. He is hard at work training in the classroom and the field. How long can we sustain this lifestyle? It is high time for military families to stand up to this Administration and say, No more...