Word: petitiveness
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...second varsity division. The ‘A’ boat made the Grand Final after the previous days’ heats, coming in fourth behind Washington, Wisconsin, and Cornell with a time of 5:48.011, and the ‘B’ boat took first in the Petit Final with...
...Breffny Morgan, who stroked the ‘B’ boat, said that they had aimed to get into the Grand Final, too, but were nevertheless pleased with their win in the Petit Final, especially since they beat two Yale boats that they will be seeing again at the Harvard-Yale regatta this weekend...
...happy to have joined a group that is "guided by Marxist-Leninism and Maoist thought." But as a high-school dropout from remotest Mindanao, it's not clear how much she truly knows or even cares about such matters. By contrast, Victor-a well-educated cadre from a "petit-bourgeois family" (his words)-gives an eloquent if specious defense of the N.P.A.'s core ideology. No communist state has ever collapsed, he argues, because none has ever existed. East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia-none had "true" communist governments when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, while the Soviet Union and post...
Toward the album’s conclusion, the intensely strange “Sexy Asshole,” reminiscent of the Prodigy and sung nearly entirely in German, is a fitting bookend for this unique, weird, and nonchalantly sexual album that you and your petit(e) ami(e) will never be able to get out of your heads...
...were drinking, we walked around the wineries and slowed up their production. At Provenance Vineyard, we tasted the same wine from different barrels and learned that French oak really does taste different from American oak (it's less oaky). I got winemaker Tom Rinaldi to let me taste Petit Verdot, a blending grape used in tiny quantities for its dark color. It tastes a lot like wine...