Word: arrowed
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...cell, Raoul Wallenberg, one of the greatest heroes of this century, may still be alive. During the latter stages of World War II. Wallenberg, then a young Swedish diplomat, worked feverishly to counter the forces of the notorious German SS leader Adolf Eichmann and the Hungarian terrorist group, the Arrow Cross, in their attempt to destroy the Hungarian Jewish population. It is estimated that he was directly responsible for saving well over 100,000 lives. But in 1945, when Russian troops captured Budapest, where Wallenberg was working, the Soviets arrested him as a spy, and his whereabouts since then have...
Arranging exchanges like these is the job of the Barterbank, 12 Arrow St., a referral network serving the Boston area that opened in Harvard Square in November...
...ball. The Ivy title's on the line, and Harvard's playing superhuman defense. Tiger point guard Gary Knapp looks around in wild desperation--there's no-one open, no-one at all. Finally it comes, the referee's whistle. And everyone whirls to look at a little arrow on the scorer's table. It's pointing at Princeton, and the game is all but over...
Following the dictum of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), athletic directors all across the country have been purchasing "possession indicators," little scoreboards with a pair of illuminated arrows pointing in opposite direction. After the game-opening jump ball, the lighted arrow points toward the team that lost the jump; the next time a jump ball situation develops, that team just takes the ball out of bounds; for the rest of the game, the all-powerful arrow alternates back and forth after each jump situation...
UCLA, for one, has already tasted the arbitrariness of the rule. Twice in the first month of the season, once against Brigham Young and again versus Rutgers, it played gutsy late defense, forced a jump, and then watched it mean nothing. The arrow was pointing the wrong...