Word: nicked
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Chris Beam and Nick Summers edit the blog IvyGate...
...While he’s encouraging of all the rowers,” captain Nick Baker said, “he’s also able to make the group motivate themselves, which is one of the biggest challenges...
...into the water by my crew. Of course these memories weren’t exactly satisfying—since they only served to remind me of not winning—so my mind continued to turn as I walked alongside the boat, making sure it didn’t nick any parked cars or errant pedestrians...
...Perhaps the best example comes from within my own suite. One of my best friends, Alec, transferred from the University of Delaware as a sophomore. He was placed with my blocking group for a rather strange reason: One of my other blockmates, Nick, had a nasty run-in with the person the housing office originally assigned to live with us. Alec was switched into our room about two weeks before school started, after we informed the housing director of the situation...
...It’s strange when I think about it, that I ended up making a lifelong friend because of an ultimately pointless disagreement between two freshmen in a dining hall—the student had taunted my friend Nick for wearing his ROTC uniform—but that’s as simple as it is. If that kid had kept quiet, I would have likely never really gotten to know Alec, and I certainly would never have lived with...