Word: winded
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...willing to throw safety (and your academic future) into the wind, FM couldn’t be more impressed...
...favor—Vermont found the back of the net only 15 minutes into the game.“We just kind of came out slow and they jumped right on top of us,” said sophomore forward Mike Fucito. “It took the wind out of us. We knew had to come from behind. It made our task greater.”Even with diminished energy, Harvard was able to protect its own goal until halftime. The Crimson was helped in part by some spectacular saves by sophomore goalie Adam Hahn and the defenders against...
Other issues that played a central role in the race were same-sex marriage, the funding of stem cell research, the proposed Cape Wind alternative energy project off of Cape Cod, and charging the children of undocumented immigrants in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities...
...Traditionally, key papal discourses would wind their way through several layers of checks and input from various offices in the Roman Curia - and particularly in the latter years of the previous papacy, bureaucrats actually wrote the speeches themselves. But the effective No. 2 man in the Curia bureaucracy, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, had been a lame duck over the last two months after Benedict announced his replacement as Secretary of State would begin this fall (Sep. 15, in fact, the day after the Pope's return from Germany). Insiders say the 78-year-old Italian hadn't had an effective working...
...inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached" - without some context or interpretation. One might even defend the Pope's use of the historical quote in order to pursue his intellectual point - but not his simply leaving it there to flap in the wind, without saying what he thought of its merits. At his Sunday Angelus prayer, Benedict in fact stated clearly that he did not agree with the Emperor, and that he respects Muslims - two points that should have been inserted in his speech right next to the emperor's black-and-white...