Word: buttes
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...only did he take it,” Schroeder recalls, “but it met at 8:30 a.m., and we had practice in the mornings. He didn’t tell [Harvard coach Charley Butt] that he had class at that time because he didn’t want to inconvenience the team. So he went to class once and got a flat...
...started rowing again—perhaps for Butt, who had worked so hard to get him to transfer to Harvard, perhaps for the national champion varsity eight he had been a part of during his junior year. But perhaps for himself, too, because Dave Stephens was made for rowing. And for winning...
...table top while another slid suggestively under her back’s curvature. Again, the mix of the old and the new was the key to this dance’s vibrancy. In one scene, a dancer suggestively contorted her body and mimicked a convincing “Harlem butt shake” more appropriate for a club scene; in another, the move was offset by the less-edgy conclusion that featured the three dancers cutely gathering together as if they were participating in a child’s play...
...Unitarian church in Miami, a crowd of Gray Panthers, a senior-citizens organization, is gearing up to lobby at Florida's next legislative session. Some are knitting, but they're all as ready as ever to "kick butt and take names," as one says. Yet the issues they're tackling this morning--universal preschool and youth-delinquency prevention--are hardly AARP mainstays. A woman lays down her knitting needles when a guest speaker from the Early Childhood Initiative Foundation laments that last year more than 500 kids under age 12 were arrested in Miami-Dade County. "Kids and elderly...
...thrive. The demise of Rover, the last British-owned mass car manufacturer, is perhaps inevitable. Bailed out repeatedly by successive British governments, the firm long failed to control its labor relations or its costs, and the quality of its cars was so uneven that they became the butt of national jokes. There was a glimmer of hope in the 1990s, when the firm was acquired and run by BMW. The German luxury automaker invested in a new premium model, the 75, but it didn't sell well. Jay Nagley, managing director of British consultants Spyder Automotive, says it was beautifully...