Word: slight
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...rating as possible under the conditions. Harvard, however, quickly set to work on opening up the early stalemate, and the Crimson began a steady walk on Northeastern shortly after the settle into the first 500 meters. By the end of the first 500, Harvard had opened up a slight lead over Northeastern. A push across the 500-meter mark cushioned the Crimson’s advantage, and Harvard opened up an open-water advantage by 800 meters down.The rest of the course was a battle—not between Harvard and Northeastern, which fell out of any sort of contention...
...chorus of "Klein Is not a liberal" and other, more mangy imprecations. Let me give credit where it's due: I probably would not be writing this were it not for all the left-wing screeching. The Stephanopoulos moment came and went ephemerally, as TV moments do, leaving a slight, queasy residue - I knew that I hadn't explained myself adequately, but that happens a lot on television. So thanks, frothing bloggers, for calling me on my mistake. You can, at times, be a valuable corrective...
...blown fruit monster,” Brown concludes, “You want a big slab of beef on your plate with this wine.” VERSED IN VINOThe group sipped the last of the Malbec to applause and—from at least one student—slight snores. But for most, the effects of the wine were more apparent. “People do get really loud and really drunk,” Amy K. Lehr says. But “I like wine, and I like my friends, and I like to combine them...
...wonderfully free sense of rhythm—sometimes drawing her vowels out languidly, and sometimes chopping her words short—creating a gentle sense of syncopation above the simple pulse and layered guitar. The album is further enriched by the tonalities of her voice, occasionally bringing in a slight nasal inflection or dropping to a barely audible whisper. Her guitar style is reminiscent of the late folk-pop great Nick Drake, and her songs evoke dreamy landscapes that will sound familiar to Drake’s fans. She plays slowly and easily, occasionally drifting into the bossa nova territory...
...fact, he says, when he moved from Berkeley to Harvard, not only did he accept a heavier class load, but he also took a slight...