Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheering fans and intense competition of the visiting schools were a sharp contrast to the relaxed attitude of the Harvard team. The meet resembled more of a workout for the Crimson than a weighty competition. Athletes were free to enter events of their choice at the coach's discretion...
Firefighters from across the nation processed into the arena, the silence broken only by the sharp beats of drums and bagpipe music...
...speedy Bala was the Crimson's best offensive weapon last weekend. In its 3-2 loss Friday to RPI, Bala spent most of the evening motoring down the left wing, and only some sharp work from Engineer goalie Joel Laing kept the puck from the back...
...group thrives on spontaneity, sometimes inviting audience members onstage to join in freestyle raps. Such improv energy fuels the new album, and the songs take unexpected twists and turns. Thompson's playing is particularly sharp; he's confident enough to play loose. "One of our fears going in was, 'This is a live album; we can't use studio trickery!'" says Thompson. "But in the end, the songs with mistakes and flaws were the ones that touched us the most, and those are the ones we ended up using." The rough edges give this CD a fresh, honest feel...
...running for president. And we've also convinced ourselves that it's our indisputable right to uncover as much as we can. And in the current, vaguely McCarthy-esque era of the public "right to know," we can rest assured that someone like FDR - whose physical health was in sharp decline and whose marriage was tortured - will probably never again make it past the New Hampshire primaries...