Word: winded
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...commitment to my alma mater. I can only hope that the University’s top officials—who, after all, are (technically) selected by the alumni—will join in the tossing motion and throw the legacy “feather” to the wind...
...earlier in the year at the annual Head of the Charles banquet. Speaking in the grandiose surroundings of Boston’s Harvard Club, he noted, “When you’ve been around the sport for as long as I have, you realize that sometimes the wind blows. The kids of course don’t want to realize it; but, sometimes, the wind just blows...
...soggy aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, during a year where there were more storms than official names, one might expect that coastal residents in the U.S. have fortified their homes; renegotiated their flood, wind and storm insurance; and squirreled away supplies for the six-month 2007 Atlanta hurricane season, which begins June...
...which of the competing films the jury president would like best. In 2002, when David Lynch was president, the winning film was Roman Polanski's very traditional The Pianist. Last year, ultra-hip auteur Wong Kar Wai gave the Palme d'Or to Ken Loach's political epic The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Go figure...
...home run was probably one of the clutchest home runs I have ever seen, and I’ve been around a long time,” Pride skipper Bill Edwards said, adding, “We like to make it exciting.” The trio of wind-aided longballs—No. 3 hitter Carolann Lubach gave Hofstra a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning on a line-drive homer—ultimately resolved a classic pitcher’s duel between Madick and Pride ace Kayleigh Lotti in the home team’s favor...