Word: scarlet
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...Brian Baise said. “We were able to score the points when we needed them, which is something we’ve struggled to do.”Points indeed came at big moments for the Crimson, which labored through five sets to dispatch the league-leading Scarlet Raiders on Friday night, before cruising to a much more comfortable four set win over NJIT on Saturday. HARVARD 3, NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1The Crimson avoided a potential letdown after a tremendous victory on Friday night, demonstrating its focus early on to take the first two sets...
...always going to speak his mind, which is why we have such a strong friendship." - Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, after Steele jokingly likened the "R" denoting the Republican Party to a "scarlet letter" (CBS News, July...
...Lake Kivu and the Congolese border and you'll see real, actual signs of trouble. Every few hundred yards are hand-painted signboards marking the sites of massacres during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Here, 532 were killed. There, 318. Here, "+/? 5,000." The word JENOSIDE is painted in scarlet, and after you've seen it--and the redness of the earth--a few times, it's hard not to wonder about the great flood of blood that bathed Rwanda when 800,000 people were slaughtered in three months. But there are other signs, signs of progress, indicating new hospitals...
...fumbling attentions? Not physically, to be sure...Yet she had enjoyed his flattery in their days of courtship. Frederick went on:“You are like a strong oak who has bloomed to full maturity. Your thick limbs are laden with leaves of crimson and scarlet hue! You are in the full glory of your autumn! Your pendulous breasts swing like overripe fruit!” Satisfied that he had spouted an ode of the highest poetic order, he skipped down the hall to fetch the Bible from his library.Felicity stood rooted in place, stunned and shaking. What...
...society. Choi spoke openly on the taboo topic and sought to change the unpopular public perception of single moms in South Korea. "Korean society does not like strong women, and thinks single moms have a personality disorder," says Park Soo Na, a national entertainment columnist. "It's like a scarlet letter." She says single mothers often ask their parents to raise their grandchildren so the kids don't have to endure the shame of living without a father figure. And for women without a movie star's bankroll, there's limited public financial support available, forcing some women to place...