Word: lone
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Harvard came out shooting, and scored only 19 seconds into the contest. A rush on the opening face-off moved the puck down the left side. Freshman sensation Sandra Whyte passed the puck across to Tri-Captain Julia Trotman, who netted the lone Crimson goal...
...bulletins. His pollster Richard Wirthlin came around, and the two men looked at the figures. A sudden drop in Bush support in some spots had caused overnight concern, but then the tracking data through the day showed a solid Bush lead. He cut the photo opportunities down to a lone picture of Nancy and him watching the early reports. "This is the Vice President's night," he said. "I don't want to intrude...
...enough for voters to get to know, and apparently love, the representatives they send to Washington. In this century, Vermont has rejected only one member of its congressional delegation who sought re-election. Thus when moderate Republican Senator Robert Stafford decided to retire after 18 years, the state's lone Congressman, seven-term Republican James Jeffords, 54, immediately was seen as his heir apparent. Jeffords had little difficulty defeating Democrat William Gray, a Burlington lawyer and former U.S. Attorney seeking his first elective office...
There are virtually no Asian movie stars besides Pat Morita, who played "Arnold" on Happy Days (in heavily accented English) and Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid (also in appropriate patois). Last year when John Lone and Joan Chen delivered two excellent performances in The Last Emperor they were both completely ignored by the Academy Awards...
...Lone and Chen at least had the good fortune to end up in a film that was an intelligent depiction of Chinese history. When Asian-Americans do get parts in Hollywood films they are almost invariably stereotyped. Who can forget the absurd "Long Duck Dong" character in Sixteen Candles...