Word: sorely
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...rainy and slippery outside,” LaVoi says, “and we were putting up a pyramid and it slipped. Steph landed on her ankle, and then I landed on her ankle. It was really sore and bruised for a while. But Steph’s a soldier—she walked...
...defense from the press box in each of Harvard’s games last year. The aerial view allowed him to see the machinations of opposing offenses as well as the interworkings of the Harvard defense. No press box could compare to the turf, but Thomas nursed his sore foot and watched...
...shoulder immediately settled back into place, but Holsey—a right-handed shooter—would be too sore to play in Harvard’s last game against Brown. Her teammates went on to an undefeated Ivy League campaign, earning an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament. A recovering Holsey returned to practice, but she reinjured her shoulder just days before the Crimson’s trip to the NCAAs...
Other works which have received critical acclaim include Myth, Literature and the African World (1976), a collection of poems, and The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (1996), which Soyinka adapted from a lecture series he gave at Harvard. He has also written two well-reviewed autobiographical works, Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981) and Ibadan, The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir...
...When prerecorded vocals for the wrong song piped up during her set, the shamefaced singer was exposed as a lip syncher. Ashlee, sister of pop confection Jessica, shuffled as if at a hoedown and left the stage. She later blamed her failure to sing live on a sore throat caused by acid reflux. Within days Ashlee was obviously warbling for real at the Radio Music Awards and telling the Today show the SNL episode was "mortifying." But the 20-year-old kept perspective. "I'm not anorexic, my boob didn't pop out," she said. "I had a bad performance...