Word: smoothness
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...October afternoon in the year 2000. A girl stands beside her father, gazing out over the water as the setting sun burns orange into the soft waves. There’s a sensory overload—the whoosh of oars slicing the smooth surface of the river combines with the smell of hot dog vendors, the sight of families stretched out on picnic blankets, and the faint buzz of cars rolling by on Memorial Drive. Little does the girl, standing at water’s edge with her father on that October afternoon, know that in a few years...
...blow!” said Chris L. Rucker ’07-’08. Quincy ended up winning this last event, but Adams House was victorious overall. But don’t worry: the Gaymes return next year with another chance to take home that long, smooth, shiny trophy...
...Let’s say we take this town / No king or queen of any state / Get up to shut it down / Open the streets and raise the gates.” The song marks a return to what the Foo Fighters are best at: producing songs with smooth chord progressions and catchy choruses...
...trip down the rabbit hole has taken us to a semantic wonderland,” Pinker gushes.His articulate discussion of space, time, and causality exhibits a wide range of knowledge on topics seemingly unrelated, yo-yo-ing between Immanuel Kant and comic strips. Pinker also displays his aptitude for smooth literary timing and phrasing, framing his chapter on the semantics of causation with images and references to time, clocks, and categorical imperatives.The chapters about the evolution and importance of metaphor and the fashion of naming are delightfully entertaining. Pinker claims that naming connects a being to a reality outside...
...crime, after an initial probe suggested Hydro had done more business with the consultancy than was previously thought. Packed into a room with reporters in Molde, a short drive and ferry trip from Nyhamna, StatoilHydro's new boss Lund scoffed at any talk that the revelations might disrupt the smooth integration of the two firms. "I'm the strongest guarantor for that," he said, shortly before heading to the Ormen Lange celebrations, "and that is my responsibility." As the head of Norway's new, next-generation energy firm, his responsibilities have only begun...