Word: climbing
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...moment of stunning authenticity, which roused a partisan audience - and a dozing press corps - at the end of a thoughtful, well-written drone. Poor Gephardt: put a microphone in front of him and he sounds like he's trying to climb the down escalator. He also has the coloring and demeanor of macaroni and cheese. Recently, he compared himself to a pair of old sneakers. This, believe it or not, is a strategy. In fact, it's probably a pretty smart strategy: Gephardt is attempting to fuse the two qualities that will be the most important in the coming presidential...
Harvard would need to climb even higher if it wanted to acquire insurance against underdogs in other leagues stealing conference championships and the automatic bids that go along with them. The Crimson was one of those “bracket-breakers” last season, when it upset Cornell to win the ECAC title and bumped Alaska-Fairbanks from the tournament field...
...took No. 2 Cornell just nine minutes to put the Harvard men’s hockey team in a gigantic hole. It’ll take the Crimson until the middle of March to climb...
...York last week. ("All you talk about is war. That's all you want to talk about," de Villepin said to Powell at a lunch after his speech.) But if Blix returns from Baghdad with a report damning Saddam, he will give the French a ladder to humbly climb down, the U.S. will have its resolution, and Saddam will have a few days to figure out whether to save his hide in exile or face the might of American armed forces...
...well-trodden path started with a gentle climb past golden rice paddies ready for harvest, then ducked into the cool embrace of massive rhododendron groves. My first days were long, about five hours of hiking broken up by a leisurely lunch. By the fourth day I was hiking only three hours to better adjust to the 3,000-m-plus altitude. I spent my afternoons lounging in the sun with a pot of tea and a book or visiting nearby hot springs with a cold beer. Hard-core? Hardly. I was getting more rest on my two-and-a-half...