Word: endower
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ACCORDING to eyewitnesses, it "pops," "hops," "skips," "jumps," "bams," "burns," "booms," "tails," "sails," "smokes," "swoops," "sinks" or just plain "whooshes." If it sounds like a UFO, that is only because the hitters who have faced the fearsome fastball of Oakland A's Pitcher Vida Blue tend to endow it with out-of-this-world qualities. Roy White, the otherwise stable outfielder for the New York Yankees, claims that the Blue darter "speeds up on you and then seems to disappear." Kansas City Royals Third Baseman Paul Schaal swears that "it jumps right over your bat." After his world champion Baltimore...
...clear that most Americans, and most Harvard students, are still just as ignorant of Southeast Asia as they were ten years ago. It is revealing that, despite all the activity at Harvard related to Vietnam, and all the money spent, the University is having difficulty raising enough money to endow one professorship of Vietnamese History...
...somebody were prepared to endow such professorships, we would be ready to consider action," Richard E. Neustadt, associate dean of the faculty of the Kennedy School, said. "But at the moment we have other priorities for the use of our own endowment and consider it an abstract proposition," he added...
Some of his colleagues at Yale have even suggested that he endow a library of comparative literature...
...which officially opened the Loeb Drama Center on Saturday evening, is a long, ambiguous, dispirited play that professionals can hardly cope with. It is, I suspect, outside the range of amateurs. Although they can and do go through the motions of telling a story with considerable competence, they cannot endow it with a point of view. Nor can they become classical actors by working hard and willing...