Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure didn't let up. Forty-five seconds into the contest, Terrier Michele Barnard took a 40-yard pass from teammate Leonie Kortenhorst, stopped to control the ball at the top of the arc and blasted it past freshman goalie Anya Cowan...
...Terriers' plan of attack was simple. The superior stick play of their midfielders and forwards efficiently pressed the ball into the Crimson arc, at which time the attackers would draw a corner. B.U.'s only goal not directly caused by a penalty corner was its first, in fact...
...only took 47 seconds, with a little bit of help from the Harvard men's lacrosse team. UConn quickly shoved the ball into the Harvard arc, at which point a lacrosse coach blew a whistle during the team's practice at the adjoining facility...
With 28 minutes left in the game, Bingham chipped a shot from outside the perimeter. It was the kind of shot that gives goalkeepers nightmares. The ball sailed in a lazy arc and the Boston College goalkeeper made a desperate jump for it, but the ball slipped behind her out stretched fingers into the net to give Harvard its final 4-1 victory...
...front of an audience in elephant hats. Then Dole would come out from behind the stage, parting the polyester-blue curtain, and enact the body language of victory--thumb up, quick-flash smile, the arm that doesn't hold the pen punching the air in a go-get-'em arc. The crowd would always stand and applaud. "We love you, Bob!" someone would yell, and the unmuffled sound would echo too well, because the hall was always half empty...