Word: wising
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Rather than chronicling last spring's events, Lord concentrates on coming to terms with legacies from the past: her family's and China's. In her uncle Jieu Jieu, the wise peasant who boasts an "unwashable brain," Lord sees the best aspects of the masses in whose name the Chinese revolution was waged. Supremely pragmatic, Jieu Jieu never bought Chairman Mao's line that the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s would instantly catapult China into the ranks of industrialized countries. On the other hand, Lord broods over the dilemma of an elderly scholar whose Western education made...
Friday night, in one of the worst games of the season, entertainment-wise and skill-wise, the Crimson shot 37 percent from the field and 29 percent from the foul line in a 80-60 loss at the hands of Brown...
Saturday night, in one of the best games of the season, entertainment-wise and skill-wise, the Crimson shot 56 percent from the field and 93 percent from the line, and still lost, 82-78, to second-place Yale...
Piltch and Holleran agree that it might not have been a wise split- second decision, but they say the success ofthe dropshot was not lucky...
...players involved in the program have gotto get better," Kuchen said. "They have to improveboth skill-wise and in their understanding of thegame...