Word: dawns
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...this history is lost to a huge fraction of the squad. The numerous freshman on the team--along with first-year Harvard coach Joe Walsh--will be playing Cornell and Princeton for the first of many times, in this the dawn of their college careers...
...hand in my work when I woke up that morning, panicked. I had neglected to place accents on my "detentes." Ca alors! I tore open my spring binders, despondent at the prospect of reprinting the two manuscripts, 137 pages each, that had kept me up near dawn feeding the printer the night before. I grew more desperate as my Microsoft Word failed to find any suitable candidates for "search and replace." But suddenly, an epiphany. My addled brain had conflated "detente" with "deterrence"--a good old American word, without all those French accents. The manuscript was safe, at least...
...release us from time and space, and usher us into an order higher than ourselves, or nation, or ideology; not so much a collective religion, perhaps, as a religion of collectivism. And seasons rescue us from private winters and admit us to a larger rhythm as unanswerable as the dawn...
...Americans by reducing taxes and regulations and free the capitalist economy to generate new wealth for everyone. The inherent flaw in this prescription, Dionne argues, is that it implies the free market is the way and the light. He predicts that government, as it did at the dawn of the progressive age back at the turn of the century, will again have to be strengthened as a counterweight to the forces of pure capitalism...
After spelling all these words, as well as "aubade" (a musical piece sung at dawn) in the final round of competition, the Harvard "Hiv-ard" walked away with the first-place trophy in the Cambridge Family YMCA Spelling Bee last Thursday...