Word: struck
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...game on, it was worth the slight bruising: the colors were sensational and bright; the players, larger than life. I had lugged a pair of speakers up from the basement and connected them to my sound system for the full surround-sound effect, so when the band struck up the Michigan fight song ("Hail! to the victors valiant/ Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes"), Dorfman, an alumnus, brushed away a tear. Emboldened, I marveled at the superior picture quality. "Supposedly, the reds are redder," I said, pointing at the ruby ESPN logo at the top of the screen...
...Greece at the time, and I didn’t learn about it for two days. I was able to hide for a couple of days and get myself ready. I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary...
...examples: Fox's 2002 and 2003 broadcasts of the Billboard Awards and NBC's 2003 broadcast of the Golden Globes. In 2006, the FCC issued an "omnibus order" reiterating its ban on single-use violations. Fox complained to the Second Circuit Court, citing the First Amendment, and the Court struck down the FCC's ruling as arbitrary. What's at Stake: In striking down the FCC's ruling, the Second Circuit Court essentially calls for the Commission to choose "between allowing any free use of any expletive no matter how graphic or gratuitous, or else adopting a (likely unconstitutional) across...
...Crimson did at Lafayette’s Fisher Stadium.Despite allowing the Leopards to get down into the red zone on the opening drive, the Crimson defense stopped Lafayette at the 4-yard line, holding them to a field goal.But the Leopards’s lead was short-lived.Harvard quickly struck back, driving down field on the shoulders of junior Cheng Ho’s stellar rushing. Ho—who after topping the depth chart last season seemingly dropped to third behind classmate Ben Jenkins and sophomore Gino Gordon—finished the day with 108 rushing yards. His 23 yards...
...which the Harvard community is so accustomed.Craig Hartman, Design Partner at SOM, San Francisco, and chief designer for the project, says that he remained confident in his sophisticated style throughout the design process, even in initial meetings with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences before the ground was struck. “When I met with them I was very frank,” he says. “They knew the kind of architecture I do, which is contemporary.”However, even with his sleek design, Hartman acknowledges that new buildings must take a cue from their...