Word: severing
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...evaporated from the vocabulary of two Undergraduate Council executives. The words "responsibility," "representation," and "fairness" have also disappeared. With their rejection of sophomore Anjalee C. Davis's petition for a five-question referendum, Council President Carey W. Gabay '94 and Vice-President Joshua D. Liston '95 effectively moved to sever the link between student opinion and student government...
...tigers the prowess to prey upon creatures far larger than the cats are. Her massive shoulders and forelimbs can grip and bring down a gaur, a wild, oxlike animal that may weigh more than a ton. Her powerful jaws and daggerlike teeth can rip the victim's throat or sever its spinal column, making quick work of the kill. But there will be no killing at this moment. After padding along a park road for a mere 100 yds., the tigress abruptly melts into the brush -- here one instant, gone the next. Watching her disappear, Indian biologist Ullas Karanth...
...example, an oil-painting class was conducted in a classroom on the top floor of Sever Hall last semester. The room was inadequately ventilated and many students suffered health problems from the painting materials' toxic fumes...
...proposed location of the kiosk in Copley Square Park at the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston Streets would violate the integrity of the recently-renovated and still fragile Copley Square Park. Copley Square is home to the historic Trinity Church (designed by H.H. Richardson, who also designed Harvard's Sever Hall) and McKim, Mead and White's magnificent Boston Public Library. These buildings constitute an important part of Boston's architectural and cultural heritage...
...ultimate aim is the liberation of our people. So if we are to be liberated, it's good to see the hands that are holding us. And we need to sever those hands from holding us that we may be a free people, that we may enter into a better relationship with them than we presently have...