Word: relics
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...score, sending to next week’s consolation game “the best team,” according to Walsh, that “we’ve beaten this year, in my estimation.”Then the coach testified to the allure of a shiny relic.“That trophy’s been sitting next to me since I got it, and it hasn’t moved,” he said, referring to the Beanpot, which Harvard captured last year for the first time...
...Cold River in southwest New Hampshire lies a wooded town of slow streams and defunct mills, a relic of distant New England days.It’s called Alstead, population 1,944. On one late summer day in 2005, Robert Brown, a former Dartmouth football star, was hard at work building a new barn on his family’s rural property.His son, Morgan, the Harvard baseball player, busied himself hammering nails. Hopped up on iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless...
...confidence vote usually paves the way to a new government with a new set of coalition partners. This, obviously, cannot make sense in Britain, where it’s either Conservative or Labour. Furthermore, I strongly object to your wording “The no confidence vote is a relic of systems in which the executive needs approval from the legislature in order to rule.” Actually, it’s the American presidential system that is a relic of a time where the only system one could conceive was one with a central and independent executive power...
...Samuel Langdon, Class of 1740. Students petitioned the Corporation in 1780 to remove Langdon from his post. They wrote, “as a President, we despise you.” Langdon was the first Harvard president to be forced out of office. The no-confidence vote is a relic of systems in which the executive needs approval from the legislature in order to rule. But in the peculiar political structure of Harvard, it is the students—not the parliamentarians of the Faculty—who have proven capable of toppling the chief. —Staff writer...
...breakout role in the indie film “Latter Days,” in which he played a Mormon missionary who has a passionate—and explicit—affair with a Hollywood party boy. But the heterosexual Sandvoss describes his beefcake-photo Google hits as a relic from some early-career modeling work. However, he admits that the sites have been more than a little helpful for his career. “It’s inevitable that you’re going to be objectified...using it to work to your advantage is something...