Word: upstarts
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...dynasty stalled. An upstart crew from Princeton blazed over Lake Qunsigamond in Worcester to surprise the lightweights, while a brushing shell from Yale took a narrow victory from the heavies...
...manners were exquisite and marriages endured, and wars were just, and honor mattered, and you could buy a decent tomato. The lament for vanished standards is an old art form: besieged gentility cringes, indignant and vulnerable, full of memories, before a present that behaves like Stanley Kowalski: crude, loud, upstart and stupid as a fist...
Walcott, 52, was born in St. Lucia and still lives part of each year in Trinidad. He brings a highly developed poetic skill to bear on underdeveloped areas. His point of view is both privileged and painful: "I accept my function as a colonial upstart at the end of an empire, a single, circling, homeless satellite." The upstart has not lacked for recognition; last year Walcott received an award from the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation that will yield him $48,000 annually for five years. Yet estrangement is not a matter of finances: "I am thinking...
Only eventual-champion Rutgers could stop the Crimson spikers, and even the Scarlet Knights had trouble fighting off Harvard's upstart crew. Harvard fell to the Knights, 15-13, 15-9, in pool play, then lost in the semi-finals...
...upstart airline crashes