Word: valiant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Republic: As one valiant voice cried out to Obama, “I don’t want money to pick my next president. I want to pick my president.” But for all this hand-wringing—instinctive aversion to filthy lucre—campaign finance reform is quixotic and probably unnecessary. The only way to actually take money out of politics is to take power out of Washington: If there is less government power to buy, people will spend less money trying...
...wary of Hollywood storylines: “In New York, there are not 20 men for every woman, lining up to whisk her off to Paris and buy her a mink coat.” While leaning back in my seat, surrounded by exceptional women (and some valiant young men too), it occurred to me that though daydreaming à la Carrie Bradshaw may not be so realistic in the long run, a woman’s imagination may conjure up possibilities for life that are as potentially rewarding as they are foreign...
...hand often. Tonight, [Rivier] couldn’t stop Brady. If we could’ve passed off and given the ball to Brady more often, we could have been even quicker tonight.” The Crimson hoped to complete the match in three successive games but a valiant effort from the Raiders in game three forced an ultimately decisive fourth game. Senior middle hitter Andy Nelson started the third game serving up a multitude of vigorous attacks, racking up three of his 14 total kills and an ace within the first few minutes. After holding a steady lead...
...Beauty and the Beast.” Sound interesting? It could have been, but instead, we’re given Kidman’s attempt to reprise her wonderfully restrained, Oscar-winning turn as Virginia Woolf in “The Hours”—a valiant effort, to be sure, but an unsuccessful one. And then there is Arbus, whose fascinatingly strange photographs you will sadly not see in this film. Arbus shows us people who are decidedly a part of our world and, though often appearing to be normal, decidedly freakish. Her subjects are often that...
...dependable back to shift momentum in Harvard’s favor. The Crimson went to Dawson just seven times in the second half, and he added only 19 yards to his game total.The day marked the first time this season Dawson went scoreless.Dawson’s valiant effort is marred by the loss that sets the team back in the Ivy League race.As Marinaro has said, the great accomplishment of that 1971 season is that he not only set the record, but also won an Ancient Eight championship.With the loss, Harvard drops into third place behind Princeton and Yale...