Word: vein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blessing in disguise is reading period, the two weeks of (predominantly) class-free bliss that most of us spend studying for exams and finishing up those final papers and projects. During this time, a host of venerable activities and bright young upstarts keep the spirit alive. Along this vein, we at Dartboard have some slight improvements to make and some suggestions...
This weekend, the team continued in that vein. The Crimson dominated cross-town rival Boston College in the first game of the invite on Saturday, 79-62, before losing a tough one to a strong LaSalle squad on Sunday, 86-79. The key for the Crimson the past few years has been the play of captain Tammy Butler...
...More face time with politicians -- that's what voters really want! Once you get going in this gently revisionist vein, as the Administration no doubt hopes you will, it becomes clear that there are many previously undiscerned reasons why this election was, in fact, a Democratic boon...
...every athlete, much less every goalie, is willing to open his or her mouth and speak in such a vein of self-deprecation. One of Tracy's defining personality traits is this strong sense of punishing honesty he radiates, so starkly contrasting with the average. SportsCenter sound bite...
...grim, I'm-so-shaken-by-the-horrors-of-war-that-I-speak-in-a-monotone-without-any-facial-expressions effect. At first, this is somewhat compelling, but after an hour and a half one gets tired of trying to figure out Douglas's emotional state by watching the vein pop out on his forehead. Reviewers normally describe this type of performance as "controlled" or "understated" but in this case it's just boring...