Word: gauntlet
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...Dunster’s hygiene goes, I am throwing down the gauntlet. I personally challenge Lurie to a hygiene contest. I am quite confident in my chances of winning this, since I clearly beat Lurie in another endeavor: the first-year housing lottery...
...listen to the same album over and over unmolested. (It’s not that I haven’t tried; over the summer, I kept a single mix CD in the car my brother and I share. After a few weeks, my brother threw down a gauntlet: “If I start the car and hear ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ blasting one more time, this CD goes out the window.” He followed through on his threat, too. Happily, the car was parked in our driveway at the time.) For most...
...late-night sugar rush. Howard Dean is almost Clintonian in his appetites. In Iowa he wolfed down pork sandwiches and strawberry milk shakes, and sometimes made detours to the dessert table; once, after an aide told him there was pie in the pressroom, he braved the reporters' gauntlet for a slice...
...cost Kostunica the cooperation of the Democrats. "The vote turned the clock back to Oct. 4, 2000," Tadic said, referring to the day before Milosevic was toppled in a popular uprising. Voters are expressing their distaste, too. Leaving the parliament building after the deal was announced, Kostunica ran a gauntlet of angry ex-supporters who denounced the pact. "I voted for Kostunica, but I never expected him to deal with Milosevic's cronies," said a disgusted Ljubica Zivkovic, 55, a grocery store owner from Belgrade. "I thought I'd never see their faces again." Kostunica's alliance with...
...gauntlet was thrown down during Primal Scream, as four Matherites stood outside Matthews Hall wearing only jackets with their House’s banner hanging from the dorm and the Soviet national anthem playing in the background...