Word: loom
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...difficulties that lie ahead still loom large, given past obstacles, leaders at Harvard say. La O, Harvard's Puerto Rican students' association, and Raza, the University's Mexican-American organization, announced they have been negotiating with Harvard for more than a year to provide courses on Hispanic studies. According to La O leader Wendell C. Ocasio '90, La O even presented Harvard officials with the name of a professor at Puerto Rico University who could teach such a course...
...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...
...billion offer from British financier and press lord Robert Maxwell. In Georgia, Joseph Lanier, chairman of West Point Pepperell, which makes Arrow shirts and Martex towels, was determined to beat back a bid for his company from Chicago investor William Farley, whose company makes Fruit of the Loom underwear. Said Lanier: "We intend to whip him, and are going to fight him until hell freezes over...
...example of a warm Calgarian, a grandmother named Jean Newsted, came scurrying along with a loom in one hand and a nervous-looking rabbit in the other. Just then the Soviet silver-medal ice-dancing team of Sergei Ponomarenko and Marina Klimova materialized by the happiest chance. Hastening up to them, Newsted explained through a handy interpreter that she was a weaver of Angora fur and had been so taken with Ponomarenko and Klimova's performance that two of her rabbits now bore their names. In fact, here in her arms was Benjamin Sergei. It is difficult to describe...
...Sometimes he imagined that he would swoop from his window into the park like a glider, landing gracefully, noiselessly before her. Off they would fly together, eventually to marry. But after a while he would leave her to test new waters, and she would write her life upon a loom...