Word: froze
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Here's a powerful "before" and "after" comparison. City Year before Judith Kidd: Annual revenues of $2.47 million; 100 corps members serving in only one city, Boston--and worked out of an inaccessible warehouse that froze in winter, sweltered in summer and leaked year round. City Year after Judith Kidd: Annual revenues of $14.45 million; 605 corps members serving in six cities--and a new central headquarters for service and idealism in Boston's South End. Where did Judith Kidd lead City Year? To more than 600 percent growth in impact, service and idealism--and nowhere else...
Harvard's domination started from the opening whistle and never seemed to cease. Right off the bat, sophomore midfielder Armando Petruccelli controlled the ball just outside of the Central Connecticut penalty box and froze the defenders for a second, before firing a shot that would have surely beaten goalkeeper Adam Clementson had it not sailed just over the crossbar...
...sting of a man brooding over his raw deal, still eager to even old scores. Eisenhower "was very charming and warm socially, but he was a hard-ass...He didn't endorse me in 1960 until he absolutely had to." George Bush's Secretary of State James Baker, who froze Nixon out, was branded "an ass," Bush "a good man, but not strong." After the G.O.P.'s meanspirited 1992 convention, Nixon was worried that "We have too much bashing of everyone in this party. It's an embarrassment. So many people are gay, or go both ways...
...here again, the experiments were novel. The light table and operator sat on the stage below the audience rather than behind it, and the chorus had their own table to sit at like a committe or a review board. Adding a bit of awkward confusion, two of the actors froze the last moment of the final scene before intermission straight through intermission to the opening of the next act. No one knew when to applaud and when to stretch...
...Lane froze. "It was really a horrible moment," he says. "I just sat there and thought, well, here's the flip side...