Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin notched the lone Crimson tally with 12:50 remaining, but, clearly the momentum was with the Green. Hibbert scored her first of the day with just over eight minutes remaining, and hit the back of the net again six minutes later...
...John, a senior from Chappaqua, N.Y., playing his first game since he damaged knee ligaments September 29, started a wing-and-a-prayer aerial assault on the Dartmouth secondary. With the Big Green hanging back to prevent the longainer, St. John drilled two straight passes to Richie Horner...
When Harvard got the ball back, it could not move. And on the next exchange, St. John threw an interception to Barry Pizor. Though the defense stiffened in the final minutes, the comeback was not to be, as an inexperienced kicking game betrayed Harvard and pushed the Crimson record back to 1-4, 1-2 in the Ivies...
...made a fortune in shoe-manufacturing, and the Pusey Library archives hold a slim volume on the gigantic endowments he left to Harvard. Though he arrives at his true life circumstances by the end of the novel, McKay first undertakes a long fictional journey to Kansas and back. McMahon has given him depth, complicated his life, and intersected his life with other', real and fictional. But in the end the real McKay surfaces, a great deal more intriguing for the reader than such a philanthropist would have appeared in fact. McKay's Bees makes a mockery of historical fiction, upsetting...
...turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning...