Word: blockings
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...lifted up on people’s shoulders, given flags to raise and wave in the air, danced with people like they were family. All because of one stupid sport that nobody really likes.I jumped in the back of a truck and road along a main city block bordering the Nile, waving my hands in the air while trying to hold on for dear life. My friend Jordan and I were a commodity, yes, two Americans somehow in Egypt, somehow celebrating with them on this hallowed day.But we were nonetheless—and with the little Arabic we knew?...
...Crimson’s win was marked by solid individual performances, particularly by freshman Anne Carroll Ingersoll, who notched 16 kills and recorded a .517 hitting percentage in just her second collegiate match. The rookie also managed to post an ace, three digs, and a solo block. “[Anne Carroll’s] really tall, so she adds a lot of height to our team,” Durwood said, “but she’s also a great blocker and a great person for me to work with as a setter, and she?...
...knew we didn’t bring our A-games Saturday,” Bode said. “We took it shot by shot Sunday and played much better because of it.” “Getting a win to start is a great building block,” Rhoads said. Harvard enters the season with very high expectations. A dominant display in the Ivy League championships last spring placed the Crimson atop the League for the first time, a feat Harvard appears capable of repeating. “I am confident in our level this year...
...There is a proposal to have a council of state which would exercise executive powers and decisions. It will be comprised of the President, his two Vice Presidents, the Prime Minister and his two deputies. This would effectively block Mugabe from taking unilateral decisions," said an MDC spokesperson...
Nasty to Nice The Tories are the traditional party of privilege, Labour the champions of the working class. But Margaret Thatcher, a radical Conservative, kicked against the establishment that tried to block her ascent; her policies appealed to aspirational working-class voters. Her successor, John Major, who came from a very modest background, nicely epitomized Thatcher's success. Blair, educated like Cameron at a private school and Oxford, won three terms as the leader of New Labour, a party as geared to middle-class interests as to workers' rights...