Word: jousted
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...Springfest a success. Summers spoke with his wallet and mingled with undergraduates, which was appreciated—but next year, maybe someone can arrange for Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 to return to Cambridge for a weekend and engage Summers in a friendly Pedastool Joust...
...saving money on music, the council was able to pay $6,100 for amusement rides like “Moonbounce,” “Gladiator Joust,” and “Bounce ’n Box.” A new addition this year at Fallfest was the popular game “Laser Tag?...
...their balaclavas before firing up the outboards and circling around behind. As they approached, crashing over the bow wave and skidding on the bubbling sea, thrown up by the tanker's immense screws, two men from the first team stood and lifted their poles as though for a joust. As soon as they could hook the side of the ship, they began climbing, the pilot accelerating in short bursts to keep the boat steady. In seven seconds, the first man was over the side and crouching by the rail, keeping watch. Five men followed and headed straight to the bridge...
...While it is fortunate that no global police force exists, the enforcement tools for international justice indeed are political and economic pressure. These have been applied for years to assist a legitimate war-crimes tribunal whose indictments merit enforcement. Fear of turmoil usually precedes justice. Over time, Milosevic's joust with international justice will undergird Serbia's emerging democracy. DAVID J. SCHEFFER U.S. Institute of Peace Washington...
...Also when you're really great, everyone around you says you can do anything. Few people are going to tell His Airness that he's lost a step, that he's about to pull a Willie Mays, that athletes do this all the time, joust against age and lose--Jim Palmer, Joe Louis, Johnny Unitas. That even if there's something poetic about competing against your mortality, no one ever wrote a poem called "To an Athlete Going Gray." Even worse than the bray of the acolytes is the example of his golf buddy Mario Lemieux, 36, who also owns...