Word: flare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quad. According to Mike Giampaolo '00, IM competition gets pretty intense, partly because of the academic pressures students face throughout the week. While Giampaolo devotes most of his athleticism to varsity football and baseball, he also offers his services to the B-League basketball team. "Tempers really flare sometimes," he says. "People seem to use [IMs] as an outlet. They let their anger out on the court." True to Giampaolo's words, a thrown elbow in a recent Winthrop-Lowell frisbee game came dangerously close to launching the entire affair into a Jerry Springer-style brawl, as players from both...
...last page read ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED TO WITHOUT EXCEPTION above a line for Newt's signature. A few hours later he called Gingrich to tell him to ignore it. Anti-Livingston campaigners plan to use the letter's arrogance as proof that his hotheadedness goes beyond momentary flare...
...soldiers and tanks, blockading the Brooklyn Bridge and sealing off the entire borough of Brooklyn. Martial law is declared and all Arab men are rounded up and sent to concentration camps set up in the city, similar to the way the Japanese were treated in World War II. Relations flare up between our trio of characters, who are all trying to resolve the crisis through their own means. The film is meant to make us question how we would react if, or even when, this situation arises and does so with moderate success...
Whenever I introduce myself as a native Southern Californian, eyebrows rise, nostrils flare and coy smiles show. But I have become accustomed to this reaction, especially as it becomes clearer and clearer that most people simply consider the West Coast a haven for "snow bunnies" and for types of foliage that just cannot be cultivated in colder climates. I smile and tell them to give California a second chance...
Upstairs, TV monitors hang from the ceiling allowing all players to view the automated scoring system which stars little demonic creatures which chide players when a gutter ball is rolled. Although no violence has ever been documented, tempers have been known to flare due to low scores and perpetual losses. The crown jewel of the complex is the second floor pro-shop, which serves as a haven for every bowler's deepest desires. XG vinyl bowling bags ($30.00), canvas shoe bags ($10), handsome hand embroidered Brunswick bowling jerseys ($50) and creme de la creme hand-crafted bowling balls...