Word: rode
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Clemson's meteoric rise this season, during which it briefly hit the top five, was probably over-achievement, but the Tigers rode the surge to a fourth seed despite a late season plunge. Clemson is a tough opponent, but it won't have a cake walk to the second round...
Livingston's heart is set to be transplanted, and the body politic is feeling the knife. Last November the U.S. Postal Service rode into town with an abrupt announcement: the post office was leaving the central site it had occupied for 80 years, preferably for a car-friendly location amid the strip malls and burger joints out of town. "They met with us on a Tuesday," says stunned city-council member Caron Cooper. "On Wednesday there was an ad in the paper soliciting bids for land." Dan Glick, a community activist, is peeved: "Those people gave us more...
...severe form of punishment was when our father wouldn't talk to us for a week." When Madeleine was invited to the prom in ninth grade, it triggered a family fight over whether she would be allowed to ride in the boy's car. Her father's compromise: she rode to the prom with her date, and her father followed them in his car. Then Josef drove Madeleine home when the dance ended...
...star of "Pretty Woman" and "Steel Magnolias" rode in a parade to the Pudding building between Pudding officers Andrew A. Burlinson '97, wearing a "Carmen Miranda outfit," and Danton S. Char '98, in a wedding gown...
...endearing things--perhaps the only endearing thing--about the scandal that ended consultant Dick Morris' career as Bill Clinton's election-year Svengali is the fact that the prostitute who allegedly rode Morris around his Jefferson Hotel suite was more of a working woman than a working girl. Now 37, Sherry Rowlands may have represented fantasy to Morris, but the more charitable sectors of the public could imagine her as just another middle-aged single gal trying to make ends meet...