Word: crowning
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...around them churned. Their bodies moved languorously together in the water, and all around the sun sparkled and there was the smell of honeysuckle. As they drifted downstream, past banks of wild roses whose branches reached out of the water, showers of rose petals fell about them and settled crown-like in Roxanna’s golden hair. In the gentle arms of the housemaid, Frederick experienced release after release. “I am free!” he kept crying out, with each shuddering jouissance. Roxanna cried out with him in unison, and the sound of their...
...cast his vote. But he was turned away. The reason: his name appeared on a list of people who had already cast absentee votes. Johnson left the station dismayed. He spent the next five hours driving across Lake County, Ind., sorting out the mess with election authorities in Crown Point, the county's seat, before eventually returning to the Gary polling station. He says the polling station's managers applauded when they saw him. "They didn't think I was coming back," the hotel dishwasher said late Tuesday. "But this election was just too important for me to miss...
Ultimately, the judges and audience agreed to crown Nick J. Navarro ’10 as the 2008 champion and awarded him $500 for his proposal, Meshconnect, which “aims to assist China by offering a new mesh technology that will reduce Wi-Fi costs by a factor...
With only two games remaining in league play, the magnitude of the next two matches is daunting—to guarantee an Ivy League title, Harvard must beat Columbia this coming Saturday and also defeat its current crown contenders from Penn in the following, and final, week of the regular season...
...four-over 148 on the two rounds. Harvard won the team title by nine, tallying a 616 compared with the Big Green’s 625 in the 17-team competition. The following weekend at the Princeton Invitational, the squad finished first out of 16 teams to capture the crown. Cho again was the top Crimson scorer, leading Harvard to a narrow Sunday victory over the Tigers. At the invitational, the Tigers stunned the field by breaking 300 on day one, shooting an incredible 298 to Harvard’s solid effort of 302. But Princeton dropped off on Sunday...