Word: rousingness
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Feb. 2, 5 a.m. A guard bangs on iron doors, rousing Begun and some 25 others in the prison's political wing. They must rise or risk punishment.
He arrives in class and greets his groggy students. He makes jokes about rousing them for a 10 a.m. Saturday class. "If you don't like it, don't come," he says, and is greeted with a chorus of erudite hisses and scholarly boos.
They will have plenty of company. Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt will formally announce next week, and former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt will do so in early March. Delaware Senator Joe Biden, who has been collecting consultants and giving rousing speeches, said last Friday that he definitely plans to run, and...
Saturday night here at the Palestra, Bromwell saved his best for Harvard once again, pouring in a career-high 32 points before exiting to a rousing standing ovation from the hometown crowd with 2:26 to go and the Quakers comfortably ahead by 20 points.
Less than 10 percent of Harvard undergraduates are Black while the portion of tenured Blacks in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is even smaller. Efforts to increase Black enrollment and faculty hirings routinely meet with rousing approval. The problem is, though, that the numbers never change.