Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard was looking to blow the set wide-open, but the Red fought back to tie the set at nine. After a successful team block by Maia Forman and Jodi Cassell, the Crimson pulled ahead...
Ironically, it was Grim who set up the UMass penalty stroke when she raised her stick above her shoulders--illegally--to block Christine Kocot's shot off a penalty corner...
Harvard came close to scoring several times. Forward Cindi Ersek plunked two shots off Clark's pads early in the first half, and Clark had to charge out of the net to block several Joslin bullets late in regulation...
...Senators, Iowa's Charles Grassley and Nebraska's Edward Zorinsky, Pik Botha warned that imposition of sanctions would result in retaliatory measures from Pretoria. South Africa would not only refuse to import any more American wheat (it bought 256,000 tons in the year ending last June) but also block grain deliveries to neighboring black states that depend on South Africa for commercial transport. Both Senators had been buttonholed near the Senate cloakroom by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, a friend of Botha's and a ) leading foe of sanctions, who proceeded to put them in touch with the Foreign...
...injustice as its vividness, he once remarked that "photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed cyclops -- for a split second." But between 1981 and 1983 Hockney scarcely touched a paintbrush; irked by painter's block, he turned to photography to shake it loose, first with a Polaroid SX-70 and then with various popular automatic 35- mm cameras. He would take a motif -- a friend smoking and talking, people around a table, a swimmer in the blue light-dappled water of his Los Angeles pool...