Word: widest
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...justify your faith." That was the sober side; the other showed a few moments later when supporters brought him a cake shaped like the country, lush with flags marking the states he had carried. As the bearers held it up, the cake started to slip. Said Reagan with his widest grin: "When that began to slide, I thought that maybe the world was going out as I was getting...
...their members recognize the Core's course development problems. The obstacle will be finding professors willing to teach in the Core. The burden of adding courses to the Core, therefore, also falls on those Faculty members who refuse to venture out of their departments. To provide students the widest range of choices in the Core, the subcommittees have to start raiding those departmental refuges. But at the same time professors must be more receptive when the subcommittees come knocking at their doors...
Paths dissect Boston Common; at the widest point on any trail, you're maybe 20 yards from another of the walkways. But only a few are wide enough to accomodate a police car, and these are far less populated than the others, for the police do not like people gathering in their park. "You should have been here five minutes ago," one young man tells two others as they stroll up the path to his bench. "Motherfuckin cops took a case of beer off me, and all I got was one can." An hour later, with a replenished supply...
Although the delegations which perform best do receive prizes, competition plays a small role. Elizabeth Pierpont '81, a member of the Rumanian delegation, said "It's not a debate tournament at all." The model U.N. emphasizes cooperation, as skills for causing and negotiating come into widest use, she added...