Word: contest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After falling behind early in the contest 5-2,Harvard rallied for three runs in both the fifthand sixth innings, withstood a ninth inningPrinceton rally and held on for the 8-7 victory...
...friend" she ever makes at Carver (oh, and this "friend?" He's a 40-year-old married math teacher). Tracy wants to win the election--has to win--because that's all she knows. That's how she lives life--chalking up victories and moving on to the mext contest (or creating them...
This school election suddenly turns into some-thing far nastier--a subversive parody of the American electoral process. Tracy wants to win for no other reason than to have another stepping stone to another contest (just like senators want to become vice-presidents, vice-presidents presidents, and presidents popular presidents). Paul is the people's choice--an unfit leader, a complete nincompoop--but the embodiment of American wholesomeness (insert various examples from the past decade here). And Tamil, Paul's sister, is the legitimate candidate. As she screams in her election speech, "No one cares about this stupid election...
...building and sit down to take in the panel discussion that is already in session. Ostensibly a debate about artists crossing over from the underground music scene to the realm of record labels and music videos, it seems to have degenerated into a shouting contest--a competition of who can declare their world-view the most self-righteously and at the highest volume...
...building and sit down to take in the panel discussion that is already in session. Ostensibly a debate about artists crossing over from the underground music scene to the realm of record labels and music videos, it seems to have degenerated into a shouting contest--a competition of who can declare their world-view the most self-righteously and at the highest volume...