Word: shone
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...vibrant and glistening as ever. When I arrived, the city had just celebrated the marriage of the crown prince Felipe of Borbon to, in the term used by the Spanish press, the plebeyana—plebian—Letizia Ortiz. The happy couple’s glossy faces shone from every gossip magazine, and commemorative plates, cookies, stemware and t-shirts stood proudly in every store window. Was this just a fairytale dream to sustain the masses that, braving a late-spring rain shower, crowded the streets of Madrid on May 22 in hopes of gaining a glimpse...
...himself, then gathered the team for a final meeting. He cleared his throat to talk, but his voice faltered. Against the elements, against the dejection that should have come from a season capsized in the final week, the largeness of Walsh’s pride in his Crimson ballplayers shone through...
...this her final season at Harvard, Ruggiero shone individually like never before. She captured the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award—awarded by the USA Hockey Foundation to the best player in women’s college hockey—after having been nominated in each of her four seasons in a Crimson jersey...
...when Harvard faltered last weekend, the crew shone this weekend, rebuffing Yale’s advance with relatively little difficulty before extending its margin of victory with a sprint...
Basking in the sunshine and with mild wind conditions for the duration of the regatta, the Crimson’s seasoned veterans shone across the varsity divisions, capturing all three, highlighted by a 3.8-second win for the first boat over Cornell...