Word: luster
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After one night of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championship, Harvard relinquished whatever hopes it had for team glory. Yet after three rounds of competition at Syracuse University, a few in the Crimson's constellation of stars retained some luster...
Appreciate the coloristic luster of the blue against the white. Stare at your fellow aesthetes through the magical icy wall. See how they waver and flicker and are gone. Appreciate the mystical unity you are achieving with the ice, the way your feet appear to have frozen to the ground...
...nots. Contrasting himself with the patrician Bush, Dole emphasizes his humble background. He says he wants Iowans to recognize that "Bob Dole is one of us." Bush's demand that Dole release his tax returns, so as to display his affluence, was an attempt to dull Dole's populist luster...
...before the session resumed. Said the dejected summit host: "I did everything I could. We all knew that if we failed to come to an agreement, the war would continue." Before the day was over, however, the tide had turned and Arias' reputation as a peacemaker had regained its luster...
...maturity into the man with a lock on childhood. The films produced recently under his aegis have fizzled at the box office. His TV series, Amazing Stories, limped through its two-year run. Could he ever fail? He could. Not enough to hurt, just enough to dim his luster...