Word: spun
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Senior free safety Chris Raftery’s interception on Penn’s next play from scrimmage—a pick that literally fell into his lap as he spun to look for the ball—gave the Crimson possession once more inside Quaker territory...
...spun the proposed change as motivated by concern for students. That would be nice, but experience has taught Harvard’s undergraduates to be wary of cost-cutting moves disguised as reactions to student woes. In the recently announced shrinking of Hilles Library, HCL is planning for a comprehensive reimagining of the building for student group use. For Lamont, administrators have offered an unimpressive suggestion of some sort of student cafe—even more unnecessary with the Barker Center’s rotunda cafe literally across the street—to replace the highly utilized Gov Docs. What...
...however, Mallya astonished everyone by deciding to enter politics. Although big business has always been a crucial source of campaign funds, politicians have traditionally maintained an air of Gandhian poverty, dressing in hand-spun clothes and driving battered domestic Ambassador automobiles. Mallya, by contrast, openly celebrates his wealth, and with his wife and two daughters in America and a son at school in England, his connection to India sometimes seems tenuous. Nonetheless, Mallya ran for an indirect election (in which votes are cast only by members of state legislatures) to India's largely ceremonial upper house of Parliament...
...student was attacked at approximately 8:30 p.m. when a male grabbed her wrist and waist, spun her around, grabbed her breast and then attempted to remove her coat, according to a community advisory released yesterday by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...
Every hopeful but Dean either voted to invade Iraq or supported aggressive regime change as long as the U.N. tagged along. Multilateral might, they seem to think, would have made war right. And every insurgent has spun with the subtlety of a pre-teen ballerina around the question of how to clean up the Middle East mess—even Dean, whose “Beantown is Deantown” placards, on display during his Copley Square speech two weeks ago, have already sloganeered him into my ominous Boston analogy...