Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, there are holdouts, purists who scorn the brash intruders. Complains veteran Vermont Skier Mary Simons: "Snowboarding is not about grace and style but about raging hormones. It is adolescent boys with their newest toy." Ralph DesLauriers, owner of the Bolton Valley Resort in Vermont, compares the gripers with "people in the horse-drawn carriages reacting to cars driving by." At least skiers can be grateful that snowboarders cannot gun their engines and spew exhaust...
With the Crimson behind in both the score (8-6) and touches (55-52), the only way Harvard could complete the rally was for Papailias to win over Wellesley's number two player, Grace...
...Captain Diana Edge, Emily Knowlton, and Grace Sheffield each shut out their opponents, 3-0, to finish off the Bulldogs...
...hard to explain the attractions and preferences. It is possible that human feelings about wild animals reflect the complexities of sexual attractions. Certain animals are admired for their majestic aggressions, and others for softer qualities. The lion is a sleek piece of violence, the waterbuck a sweet piece of grace...
Given the public taste for upscale homicide, the case became known as the Main Line murders. This is not as elegant as it sounds. Echoes in the Darkness and Engaged to Murder have nothing to do with Grace Kelly's relatives or rowing on the Schuylkill, although some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives. So it is no surprise that Joseph Wambaugh, the former Los Angeles cop who writes well about the police (The Blue Knights, The Onion Field), attempts to establish a gothic mood. He associates the feeling with eastern Pennsylvania's brooding...