Word: marooned
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This can mean anything from a zebra-striped bathing suit and chino walking shorts to a slinky, maroon silk one-shoulder gown and a black crepe cocktail dress. Davida Levy of Miami's Main Event even sells something called the "executive dress," which may be worn with a jacket and a reversible vest for an approximation of the three-piece look. Since maternity customers are often older, with jobs of their own and a certain amount of flexible income, they can manage triple-figure price tags with a minimum of fuss. Indeed, retail prices of maternity clothes have more...
Abandoning the man-to-man defense in favor of a press, the Crimson stymied the potent Springfield offense. More effective passing and aggressive shooting helped the squad score eight unanswered points and cut the Maroon's 31-point advantage...
...science of politics, and its first three-day stop is Des Moines, chosen for its central geographic location. To show they mean business, the Dems have rather pretentiously called their course a National Training Academy. It is mostly a mix of skull sessions and pep talks in the garish, maroon-walled ballroom of the Hotel Savery. The subsidized tuition is a modest $95, described by Party Political Director Ann Lewis as "low enough to attract, but high enough to require serious commitment. Lewis is delighted that 240 "students," a third of them women, have come from 30 states to soak...
...differential) tend to fade, like the colors of a chameleon, after a few years in the corporate world. Others, however, seem permanently tinted, chameleons that have mysteriously evolved into some slightly more agile species of lizard. Robert Almon, for example, wears the predictable colors: pink Oxfordcloth shirt, blue-and maroon-striped necktie, gray suit, black loafers as polished as medieval armor. One of six children of a Rhode Island family (his younger brother plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox), Almon majored in psychology and literature at Brown University, then got an M.B.A. from Harvard...
...bleachers blazed with fall colors: maroon, gold and red. Both sides answered every play with a standing roar, and Stanford drew nearly as many supporters as Boston...