Word: availed
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...believed that Richter may have covered the puck during the fracas and that the play should have been whistled dead earlier.About ten minutes later, Clarkson broke the deadlock when Matt Beca netted the go-ahead goal with 1:24 left.The Crimson pulled Richter in the closing minute to no avail, as Clarkson’s Shea Guthrie added an empty-netter to make the final score 4-2. SAINT LAWRENCE 4, HARVARD 3Through 57 minutes of Friday night’s game against the No. 17 St. Lawrence Saints (14-10-2, 10-3-1), Harvard had successfully killed...
...screen, appeared scenes of a drug bust in Moscow, complete with pictures of needles and an unidentified white powder. While the camera showed police rushing into an apartment and arresting its occupants, an announcer explained how the suspects had tried to hide the goods, but to no avail...
...just think it’s time,” he says. “If you look at some of the talent available...we should avail ourselves...
...Washington pressed Shi'a leaders to rein in their militias, but to no avail. They saw the Sunni insurgency as the source of the violence and insisted the U.S. focus on disarming it. Tensions increased as growing numbers of Shi'ites dismissed U.S. appeasement of Sunnis as a failure: The insurgency was stronger a year after Sunnis joined the political process...
...Reid's support for a troop surge? Well, first, Democrats are split on what to do next, and there has always been a good chunk of the Senate caucus that might well back more, not fewer, troops. Though Democrats pushed the Baker-Hamilton commission behind the scenes (to no avail) to set firm timetables for U.S. withdrawal, Reid's comments are a reminder that they are not yet ready to take such a hard line in public. The public may think Iraq is a mistake and a fiasco; but it may not be ready to bug out. Finally, the Democrats...