Word: cellaring
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...trying to outrun technology. They usually adapt, moving either up the skills-and-income scale or down it. Perhaps a better metaphor is Virginia Lee Burton's classic children's story of Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne. Outmoded by diesel models, Mary Anne retires in the cellar she has just dug for the new town hall. She becomes the building's heater. And Mike Mulligan finds gainful employment, though not by mastering diesel technology. He works contentedly alongside Mary Anne, as a janitor...
...just two years, Walsh--who was named the New England Divsion I Coach of the Year Wednesday--and his staff have taken the Crimson from the Ivy League cellar to an NCAA tournament victory...
...that was then and this is now. And this is now is not looking good. A great lacrosse team upsets teams like Princeton and Virginia. A good team has no trouble beating Ivy League cellar dwellers like Dartmouth. But the sign of a once-good team that could be about to embark on an alarming decline is a team that little by little starts losing to inferior opponents. And that's true in almost all sports...
Lider-Johnson says that the Advocate, founded in 1866 and the major publisher of poetry on campus, has become an institution, leading to an atmosphere not always congenial to new voices or to appreciation "without judging the work." Other younger campus publications such as Diversity & Distinction and Cellar Door also publish undergraduate poetry, but the Advocate remains the dominating voice of student poetry...
...that incompetent and perhaps even complicit police enabled convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux and eight others to kidnap and kill at least five girls in 1992. The probe cited a long list of police and judicial blunders, noting that police twice heard girl's voices while searching Dutroux's cellar but did not realize children were imprisoned there. Police also accepted Dutroux's explanation that the construction they saw was for a new drainage system, when in fact he was creating cells to house his kidnap victims. Prosecutors were criticized for taking a lax approach to the case, treating...