Word: lifting
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...second half, Harvard, with textbook execution, broke through the defense that both Brown and the Gaels employed as Masterson scored, giving the Crimson the emotional lift it needed to cruise to a dominating 12-6 victory...
...take issue with Bash’s premise, however, that the best reason to lift Harvard’s ban is that it would encourage “progressive thinkers to...rise to the pinnacle of the military elite.” This may very well be an argument that can tip Harvard’s scale in favor of ROTC—that once we associate ourselves with the military, its backwardness as an institution will be more easily remedied. It would be better, though, if in debating the issue, Harvard administrators and students could show...
There are, of course, a host of options that don’t involve potions, pills or Jack’s magic bean, namely the arsenal of medieval-inspired brassieres that promise to hoist, squeeze, lift and hydro-thrust my breasts oh-so-far out there for every Tom, Dick and sketchy first-year to ogle. Britney I am not, and the thought of making my little ladies scream “hit me baby one more time” sends me into a panic...
Come to that, I’m not sure anyone else could get away with singing, “I’m leaving in the morning just as soon as the dark clouds lift / I’ll break the roof, set fire to the place as a parting gift.” Particularly not in the same song (“Summer Days”). But Dylan isn’t all bluster and arson: “I need something strong to distract my mind / I’m going to look...
...Egyptian theme. You buy tickets from in-between sand colored pillars complete with “cracks,” you walk over a mosaic of blue tiles meant to represent the Nile, not to mention the fact that there are hieroglyphics painted everywhere you look. The armchairs lift up so you can snuggle with a date, or if you’re really tired, you can even watch a film sprawled out across...