Word: cakewalked
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Dartmouth's potent field hockey team was expecting a cakewalk against Radcliffe over the weekend. But although they emerged 3-0 victors, the Big Green found itself pitted against a psyched up bunch of Crimson stickhandler...
This openness made his confirmation hearings before the House Judiciary Committee?which lasted a grueling six days and went into every aspect of his life?a cakewalk. At least 350 FBI agents, 70 in Grand Rapids alone, fanned out to investigate his background, but Ford instructed anybody who asked: "Tell them the truth?give them everything." Everything did not amount to very much. He had been careless about disclosing the names of campaign contributors in his last election. A discredited Washington lobbyist had accused him of accepting money for favors. By the end of the televised hearings, Ford emerged with...
...leadership that's willing to lead, not someone they have to kick into the next century," says Andrus, an advocate of environmental and educational causes. Son of a lumbermill operator, Andrus is a man of modest means. His race for re-election in November should be a cakewalk; he is interested in campaigning for the U.S. Senate when his second term...
...Crimson squash team, fresh off a 9-0 season-opening massacre of MIT, expects another cakewalk against a punctured Amherst squad at 3 p.m. today at Hemenway...
...neutral to capture either a man or a myth. But Mary Magdalene (Yvonne Elliman) has been etched in melodically with Puccini-like tenderness, and the rollicking minstrel beat under the Apostles' chant, "What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happening," is a Cakewalk of pure joy. The swinging gospel-rock music sung by Judas (Tenor Murray Head) brings him brilliantly to nagging, skeptical, near-paranoid life. Sound effects add to a building sense of drama: the listener hears the slap of 39 lashes over a satiric rock beat, as well as the noise of nails...