Word: propeller
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...insights into the character of Lester, the grief-stricken mill manager whose quest to avenge his younger brother’s death sparked Harvard’s Gay Scare. “[A]n entity as extreme as a gay-purging tribunal needed exceptional energy and passion to propel it into existence,” Wright tells us. “That energy came from Lester Wilcox.”Wright takes his readers on a roller-coaster ride through Wilcox’s twisted psyche. A former cocaine addict, Wilcox would become an abusive father and husband?...
...been working really hard at improving her game over the course of the fall,” Graham said. “She has a really good work ethic...and when you get a few good wins on top of that, it can only help to propel her onward into the spring.” Junior Cindy Chu made it to the finals of the consolation Flight A singles bracket of the tournament. Chu defeated Princeton’s Joanna Roth in a semifinal tiebreak, but could not get past Angela DiPastina of Ohio State in the final. The team...
...sense of historical and cultural depth. Not that there isn’t enough to hold our attention in the plot’s present. The never-ending whirl of parties and holidays, buoyed on a golden wash of champagne over barely concealed nervous breakdowns, has enough energy to propel the book on its own.Lending a delicate counterpoint to the glitter and noise, the supremely articulate yet supremely uncertain Nick drifts on the current, avoiding neither the glare of his hosts’ spotlights nor the murk of their secret shames. As his surname implies, Nick is forever...
...large component of the U.S. News rankings—25 percent—are peer rankings. In the November 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Colin Diver, the president of Reed College, said that some schools routinely rated their peer institutions into the bottom tier so as to propel themselves upwards. A proliferation of rankings without peer evaluations might lead colleges to more honestly evaluate other institutions...
...four times a week, until we make it," says Nikail, 21, who trekked for a year from Mali to the now denuded woods outside Melilla. "We have no choice: either we get over the fences or we die." That's the sort of desperation that will continue to propel migrants toward the wire...