Word: apartness
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...responded to officers' calls for surrender by shooting and hurling 11 explosive charges. A four-hour standoff ended when police shot him before he could detonate the explosives vest he was wearing. His companion then set off a bomb that brought down the roof and ripped both men apart...
...made us successful in the game until that point.”CORNELL 4, HARVARD 3With a one-goal lead at home against the No. 3 Big Red, and with just over 10 minutes left to play, Harvard had the upper hand.But two Cornell goals less than three minutes apart gave the Big Red a 4-3 victory Friday night.After playing catch-up and turning over the puck for much of the third period, Cornell (4-2-0, 3-1-0) took a timeout at 13:41.The Crimson led 3-2, but just over a minute later, Big Red defenseman...
...It’s not Schindel’s fault. We were completely out of sync,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “Anytime you have your third team guy in there who’s a freshman, things just completely fell apart. There was no confidence from the kicker, the holder, the snapper. There was just no execution.” On the two blocked kicks, Schindel had no chance—the blocking scheme appeared to break down almost immediately, and a number of Penn defenders easily broke through the line. Coming...
...first two extra points were botched, the first due to a bad snap and the second on a poorly executed fake. With the third-string long snapper in the game after injuries to captain Erik Grimm and backup junior Dylan McCrory, Murphy said, “things just fell apart.”“We were completely out of sync,” he said.It helped that the Quakers were unable to accomplish much in the air, or on the ground against the best rushing defense in Division I-AA.Penn quarterback Pat McDermott found his wide receivers with ease...
...become Queen after her Dad. Just the lawyer's pen. The Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wants to erase the sexism from Article 57 (to apply post-Felipe), the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won't object, and polls show that - republicans apart - most Spaniards would welcome a Queen. But what if, one fine day, a future Queen Leonor announced she wanted to marry a woman? The protocol boggles, but no problem. In Spain today that's fine, too. Even for someone like me, raised in a democracy and resident here...