Word: groans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Many Harvard students greet Monday morning with a groan, exhausted either by Sunday night’s homework marathon or by a particularly mean weekend hangover. As these students roll out of bed, sophomore Lindsey Scherf is already running throughout Cambridge, clocking the first miles of her grueling 90 to 100 mile week...
...collective groan that rose in the damp air expressed more than mere disappointment. Losing its third bid in 20 years to host the summer games was bad enough for Paris, but to lose to London seemed the cruellest of fates. Just two weeks ago, British Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to sign off on an EU budget that continues to commit the largest part of its revenues to agricultural subsidies that flow liberally to France. Last week, Britain commemorated - with some delicacy - the 200th anniversary of Lord Nelson's routing of Napoleon's fleet at Trafalgar. The traditional rival across...
...follow-up lunch, for instance, to develop a more substantive relationship. You have to wade into the shallow end before you can get to the depth. The speakers like to emphasis that this is the way of life in the hectic, always moving Capitol. People network, even if they groan at the mention of that ugly word...
...often, however, the play prioritizes the mundane over the insane. At times, the play is simply making the same cracks that we’ve all made to each other about dining hall food, messy roommates, and Yale. While the goal often seems to be the groan-snicker of recognition that comes with the umpteenth comment about these constants of life, even in song form the well-worn jokes have gotten somewhat dull from repetition. They often seem obligatory, as if authors Aliza H. Aufrichtig ’08 and Ximena S. Vengoechea ’08 felt duty-bound...
...cast, however, delivers the sometimes groan-worthy material with aplomb, throwing themselves into the jailings, cleanings, tangos, water-torture attempts, and unrequited pinings with zeal. As Dimna, Jones struts, saunters, and laughs evilly over her today-the-dining-hall-tomorrow-the-world outlook. As Peter, the hapless roommate of the kidnapped George, Sheldon is adorably overeager in his pursuit of Veronica...