Word: scours
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Hoping to avoid embarrassment at the '08 Olympics, Beijing officials have sent linguists to scour the city's signs over the next eight months to correct their infamously quirky English translations...
...come in pairs; it has arisen in those apparently untouched and been replicated as if by decree. The country had not one Waugh but two?Steve the hardhead, who carved out cricketing immortality from the granite of his temperament, and Mark the aesthete, whose fluid strokes caused ancients to scour their memory for another who made batting look so easy and so beautiful...
...Greeks are certain that more relics will return. "This is just the beginning," says Culture Minister George Voulgarakis. "We will scour the globe and recover them...
...prophet Elijah and St. Andrew, which, according to the memo, the Odigia Foundation Icon-Institute in the Hague says it bought from a London gallery in 1996. The Greeks are certain that more relics will return. "This is just the beginning," says Culture Minister George Voulgarakis. "We will scour the globe and recover them...
...prospective freshmen scour Harvard’s Friday night party scene this weekend, they will find very few options on campus. The College is not allowing parties in Houses tonight, in accordance with a campus noise prevention policy the night before the administration of the MCAT test, the pre-medical school exam. While Kirkland House Master Tom Conley said he did not know who enacted the ban, he said he believed it made sense. “The exam is grueling...They need a good night’s sleep before going into the field of battle...