Word: gauntlet
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...take heart, you ain't seen nothing yet. Seventeen hundred freshman of the Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1978 still have to fight each other and the registrar and then run the snake-like gauntlet of group representatives peddling their wares before they can officially say they are Harvard students...
...while in Shanghai seemingly to pose a challenge: Who could take his featherweight literary sedative about marriage and sex in English high society and transform it into an exciting and riotous evening's entertainment? The Tufts Summer Theater company, as an exercise in dramatic machismo, has taken up the gauntlet, but to what avail...
Julie is incensed at the idea that her father is a desperate man, harassed by the worst of all his crises. "I think sometimes he really likes a challenge," she says. "It's kind of a gauntlet thrown down-you've got to pick it up." That, asserts Julie, is exactly what the President has done. She says that her father has never discussed the possibility of impeachment with his family. On the contrary, she reports, the President is the family's strongest member these days. "He's the one who's always calling...
...enough: "If my good friend from California can tell me what will come from the pending resolution, I will be glad to know." When Edwards could not, and, undaunted, went on a minute later to ask the House to proclaim National High Blood Pressure Week, Hechler threw down the gauntlet. Vowing to continue his objections to such resolutions, he noted wryly that National Clean Water Week and National Next-Door Neighbor Day had not brought about any notable improvement in the nation's waterways or in its interpersonal relations. Hechler maintains that declarations such as National Check Your Vehicle...
...insist that top women players provide a brand of tennis comparable to men's. I challenge you to prove it. I contend that you not only cannot beat a top male player, but that you can't beat me, a tired old man." Billie Jean refused the gauntlet the first time around because, she says, "we didn't need him, we were making it on our own merits...