Word: strung
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...when he and his guide Tenzing Norgay had stood on the top of the world, looking down on a white ocean in which peaks like Kanchenjunga and Lhotse appeared like frozen waves. He pulled out his camera and snapped Tenzing holding aloft his ice ax, strung with the flags of Britain, India, Nepal and the United Nations. Tenzing dug a hollow in the snow and filled it with Buddhist offerings: a few sweets, a chocolate bar and some cookies. Hillary dug a second hole and buried a crucifix. The two nibbled on some mint cake and, aware that their oxygen...
...semi-autobiographical, self-reflexive tone weaves itself throughout the play. But Sun’s solo play is, above all, a tremendous and exhausting feat of acting. She throws herself into a bevvy of characters: The high-strung principal Mrs. Kennedy, concerned only with the school’s statewide Regents scores and the federal grants that depend on them; the abrasive security guard, who sends students home if they dare sport so much as a metal belt buckle; Sun’s landlord, who believes that sending all students to Catholic school would solve the problems of the American...
...diamond prospector. He then sets off for a black township on a genealogical quest for the long-lost cousins he hypothesizes he must have, descendants of the illicit sexual liaisons that often transpired between prospectors and the black washerwoman who worked in the mining camps. A series of hastily strung-together clauses ensues, and the story abruptly terminates in Morris’ existential questioning in a township bar: “These bar-room companions buddies comrades, could any one of them be men who should have my family name included in theirs? So where am I from. What...
...Lions in each game and never trailed. Mahon led the charge with 21 kills on .378 hitting, while junior Kathryn McKinley added 11 kills and 10 digs. Sophomore Katherine Kocurek led the defensive effort with 19 digs, and sophomore setter Lily Durwood distributed 44 assists. The Crimson strung multiple four- and five-point runs throughout the first game to establish a dominant 27-12 lead, and while a subsequent Columbia run made it closer, Harvard was able to close out a 30-22 game one victory on a kill by sophomore Alissa Flesher. Game two featured some of the most...
...Princeton only posted one error and the result was the same—a 30-19 Tigers win.The Crimson kept fighting, however, and was able to capitalize on a late run to take the third game by a score of 30-27. At one point, down 25-21, Harvard strung together six consecutive points to take a 27-25 lead. After a quick back and forth between the two sides, junior Kathryn McKinley put the game away with a kill.“We really had to battle back in that third game to win it,” said...