Word: saws
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...yelling ‘Ya! You think the Vermont Coach can do this!? No way the Vermont coach can do this!’ There is no doubt that the Vermont coach could not due [sic] as many reps curling 135 pounds as the man I saw before me. Problem was, Coach Fitz let this macho, you-are-only-as-good-as-how-much-weight-you-can-throw-around mentality drive his whole approach to training athletes...
...spot. Junior Alisha Mashruwala had little trouble winning the first two games 11-3 and 11-6 before facing stiff competition from Cornell’s Rebecca Hazell. Mashruwala held on to win the third set 13-11 after a cycling of points that almost saw Harvard drop a game. At the no. 8 spot, junior Bethan Williams had no trouble in seeing off Big Red’s Clare Berner...
...didn’t really believe that I could win because he was just really doing a lot of stuff better than I was,” Michas said. “In the second game, I saw him keeling over a little bit, and I knew at that point I could go on and win the rest of the match mostly on my fitness and being able to last a little bit longer...
...Omnipotence Obama's effort to downsize the war on terrorism is partly a function of personality and mostly a function of circumstance. George W. Bush loathed what he called "small ball." He saw both his father's presidency and Bill Clinton's as inconsequential and yearned to invest his own with world-historical significance. After 9/11, he immediately began comparing the war on terrorism to World War II and the Cold War - a global, generation-defining struggle against an enemy of vast military and ideological power that would transform whole chunks of the world...
...impossible: the U.S. didn't have the money or might to keep communist movements from taking power anywhere across the globe. So Nixon stopped treating all communists the same way. Just as Obama sees Iran as a potential partner because it shares a loathing of al-Qaeda, Nixon saw Communist China as a potential partner because it loathed the U.S.S.R. Nixon didn't stop there. Even as he reached out to China, he also pursued détente with the Soviet Union. This double outreach - to both Moscow and Beijing - gave Nixon more leverage over each, since each communist superpower...