Word: cements
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...trust the U.S. Senate will quickly ratify the treaty; the Russian parliament should do the same. Those will be the final steps needed to cement this momentous arms control victory...
...first black to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar ("Carmen Jones," 1955); Belafonte was and is the cool, sexy actor-singer with a half-century's radiance. But Micheaux? Considering his instructively bizarre, virtually anonymous career, no one would have expected Micheaux to achieve this celebrity in cement. No one but Micheaux himself...
...World Trade Center as he and his colleagues filed down the stairs after hearing a "huge blast" and seeing glass and debris raining down from above. "It's hard to know what was in the pilot's mind, but I know what we were thinking." The reinforced cement building withstood the impact and was never at risk of collapsing. Also, several of the upper floors were being renovated, which likely prevented further casualties. That was welcome news. The bad news is that, up there somewhere, the other shoe is still waiting to drop...
Harvard, the defending champion, finished in second place, on top-five finishes from both the A and B boats. The Crimson was able to rebound from a disappointing and inconsistent Saturday with a strong final day performance to cement the high finish...
...supporting characters of the three thieves do not aid Foster in conveying any fear and suspense in the tale. Leto bumbles through his role as Junior, the stereotypical greedy young heir, while Dwight Yoakam tries to cement his cross over from country music to serious acting by squinting his eyes and brandishing a large gun as Raoul, the most diabolical and least developed of the three theives. Forest Whitaker provides one of the few bright spots in an otherwise anemic cast, searching for depth in the character of the conflicted Burnham, the only thief whom writer Koepp seems to have...