Word: undid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After eating more than my share (I surreptitiously undid the top button of my jeans) I was ready for the show to start. Conversation quieted as MIT sophomore Rosie Alegado came to the stage to perform a traditional opening chant called Oli Aloha. Her rich, deep voice gave shape to the complex and poetic chant, capturing everyone's attention and setting the tone for the hula dances to follow. It was clear, that this would not be one of those oft encountered theme party caricatures of Hawaiian culture where ti leaf skirts are traded for cellophane ones, where canned pineapple...
...even weirder. At a British pub in Moscow, the promoters once brought in a lemon-shaped kiddie pool for a "bobbing for Hooches" event, in which the contestants had to pick a bottle off the bottom with their teeth. One man, after sticking his face in the water, somehow undid the cap and drank the entire bottle under water. At another promotion, Tatyana, one of the "Hooch Girls," saw someone swallow a lemon whole in a lemon-eating contest, "in one second, I swear," she says...
...order to win both games this week-end, Harvard will have to improve over its performances the past weekend. Intensity again was a key factor in the two losses as Harvard fell apart in the second period against Princeton and little mistakes undid them against Yale...
...stocks from going through the roof Monday. Seoul's Korea Composite Stock Price index racked up its largest single-day percentage gain, jumping 25.98 points, or about 7 percent, to close at 385.80. Rallies on Saturday (yes, this is a market that trades on Saturday) and Monday more than undid Friday's plunge, when the Composite sank 7 percent to a 10-year low. What caused the turnaround? The catalyst seems to have been a series of statements over the weekend by South Korean leaders, who vowed to "fully implement the agreement reached with the IMF" - even as students marched...
...government shutdowns. This time it resulted in an agreement to balance the budget for the first time since 1969, the year the Beatles crossed Abbey Road. What made the difference between then and now was a dose of political realism and a last-minute avalanche of projected cash that undid Democratic sticking points on Medicare caps, domestic spending and cost of living adjustments on Social Security. As recently as last Wednesday, nearly three months into the budget talks, a settlement was just within reach and just out of reach. Republicans wanted deeper tax cuts. The White House wanted more spending...