Word: cladding
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...Mexica far outnumbered the Spaniards, and the two peoples were equally bloodthirsty, but in the end, Thomas demonstrates, superior technology enabled the Spanish to prevail. The Mexica fought with lances and swords that were designed to wound, not kill. The Spanish had crossbows, harquebuses and armor- clad horses, none of which the natives had ever seen. The Spanish had two other advantages: a tactician of genius in Cortes and smallpox, which devastated an Indian population which had never previously been exposed...
...trite as the plot is, the main characters rescue it from oblivion. The trenchcoat-and-sunglass-clad, play-it-by-the-book Doug Chesnic is perfect contrast to the odd but kind Tess Carlisle. Several political references also spice up the dull script. Some are to past administrations, like when Tess says that all Agnew and Johnson ever did was play golf: "If was a blessing for the country." Others allude to Bill and Hillary. When Tess watches old news clips about her husband, the audience learns her Clinton-like history relatively painlessly. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle met at Denison...
...looking for the iron-clad, universal law of the B+, this is it. Across the board, professors, tutors and TF's describe the B+ in exhalted terms. Is the B+ a good grade? "I think it's a great grade," bubbles chemistry professor Gregory L. Verdine. "It's a grade you would praise someone for highly," proclaims Harvey C. Mansfield, professor of government, notorious gadfly and grade-deflation guru...
These women could indeed be the last of the great white-clad debutantes, if their answer to the question, "Do you think your daughters will be debutantes?" are any indication. Anonymous's response is, "Definitely not. The only reason I did it was for my grandmother and it won't do a thing for my mom." She adds, however, "My sister's daughters probably will do it." For others the question is one of geography. Malone says, "It depends on where we lived and if they want to do it." And Stevenson answered, "Only if we live in Jackson, Mississippi...
Last week Diann Roffe-Steinrotter could identify with that. Clad in skintight purple spandex at the starting gate of the Olympic course, the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) racer from Potsdam, New York, gazed down the ice- glazed slope to the distant valley below. In the Arctic chill, a kaleidoscopic blur of 40,000 snowsuits gazed back through a vast video screen. "I was sick-to-my-stomach nervous," she said. "I tried to drink water. My insides felt like California during the earthquake." But somehow as she zipped past red barns and sailed over moose and lynx paths down...