Word: besting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forwards facilitated the improvement, redoubling its efforts to help the blueliners. In its best execution of the Mazzoleni system to date, they pressured the puck forcing quick decisions, and ultimately turnovers...
Harvard has had a difficult time getting set-up in the offensive zone, especially with its second unit. The team's best stick handlers are its forwards, so Mazzoleni has tried to have them carry the puck through the neutral zone, but too often they have run out of options by the blueline...
...Living in Hope and History. In most of her speeches and essays, Gordimer settles for platitudes and truisms rather than incisive commentary. Of course, in two or three of these selections, we do get some flashes of the uncompromising clarity of moral vision that is apparent in her best fiction: but these glimpses of Gordimer at her best only serve in this context to accentuate the readers disappointment in the rest of the compilation. In 1959: What is Apartheid?, a transcript of a seminar given in Washington DC, we see the Gordimer who we know and admire. Her prose rings...
...while and certainly were not the worst bad ever to grace the dingy Paradise stage, but they were all but ignored. Even Jimi Haha, lead singer of Jimmie's Chicken Shack, picked up on the unfriendly vibe, saying towards the beginning of their set "Who's the best band at the BCN Xmas Rave? The World is My Fuse! Yeah! Who the fuck are those guys...
...third year at Hogwarts, Harry and his two best friends--Ron and Hermione--take up the study of divination. The class teaches them to read tea leaves, palms and crystal balls...