Word: lean
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...again Harvard will lean on its big hitters to carry the load. Weissbourd is currently sixth in the nation with 5.28 kills per set, as well as third in the country in service aces and tenth with 1.40 blocks per set. The rookie Jones is second on the team with 3.06 kills per set, and Weintraub is 13th in the nation in assisting his attackers with...
...tiny attic bathroom with a sharp eave descending over the toilet so I have to hunch to stand under it and squint at the sharp light reflecting off the snow on the roof, through the diagonal glass panes of the window. It hurts so much that I lean my head against this sharp eave for five minutes, to steady myself. Trying again to look out the window, I squint so hard that I can’t tell if it’s actually snowing or just really snowy, and how much of the whiteness is just sun.All I remember...
...write about a lonely, tax-delinquent business owner who would call you sometimes just to talk. Did people often lean on you emotionally...
...place to stumble on inspiration. Poetry books and recordings surround the few tables in the spacious reading room, which overlooks Tercentenary Theatre. The spire of Memorial Church stands tall against the blue sky. If you get bored of writing that paper, you can put on your reading glasses, lean back on a blue couch, and toss open an anthology of Wallace Stevens or the latest issue of the Kenyon Review. You can also go to the computer at the front of the room and contribute to the Woodberry Poetry Room Daily Poem, which was started to celebrate Lamont's 60th...
...melodies so much as emotions; their music is the heartbeat that gives movie images instant and lasting resonance. Jarre, who died in Los Angeles on March 29 at 84, put this knowledge to use in his first famous scores: the heroic theme that lent a galloping grandeur to David Lean's 1962 Middle Eastern western, Lawrence of Arabia, and the chorus of balalaikas in Lean's 1965 Doctor Zhivago that promised ecstatic reunion after the grimmest separation. In a half-century of movie work, Jarre wrote the music for more than 150 features, but it's his underscoring of Lean...