Word: blowingly
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...sixth offensive play, as junior quarterback Collier Winters connected with senior wide receiver Matt Luft for seven yards. But Harvard quickly returned to the ground assault, calling two plays for Gordon that brought the ball to the five-yard line, setting up Scales for the knockout blow. The rookie took the handoff and was barely touched as he marched into the endzone with 8:22 remaining in the first quarter, giving the Crimson an early 7-0 lead that it would not surrender...
...matter how carefully chosen Obama's words were, nothing was going to disarm his critics. Shortly after 9:30 a.m., Michael Steele, the head of the Republican National Committee, struck the first blow, issuing a release that suggested Obama was undeserving of the award. "The real question Americans are asking is, 'What has President Obama actually accomplished?'" Steele said in the statement. "One thing is certain - President Obama won't be receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility, or backing up rhetoric with concrete action." (Read "Obama's Nobel: The Last Thing He Needs...
...communist forces are poised to take Beijing. Just south of the Yangtze, in Nanjing, Mao's archfoe, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, holds court as the leader of the Republic of China and its Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) government. But Mao believes that winning Beijing first will deal a mortal blow to the morale of the KMT. En route to what will be the future People's Republic's capital, he and his top lieutenants pause in a town that has been deserted by shopkeepers and merchants fleeing the revolution of the proletariat. As Mao laments being unable to buy even...
Life or death can depend on the blink of an eye or the fraction of an inch. A split-second difference at the intersection that night and the racing minivan driven by Andrew Thomas Gallo would have hit Stewart's sports coupe only with a glancing blow. Instead, running a red light, Gallo slammed into the Mitsubishi Eclipse at over 65 m.p.h. "right between the wheels - direct dead center," says Wilhite's father. Meanwhile, a slight quarter-inch movement of Wilhite's vulnerable spinal cord during his rescue by paramedics or at the hospital and he would be paralyzed...
...addition to having his skull unanchored and spinal cord put in mortal danger, Wilhite also suffered a brain injury called "brain shearing." While a concussion damages the part of the brain that strikes the side of the skull, Bhatia says brain shearing occurs when a powerful blow whiplashes nerve endings across the entire brain. At a charity game at Cal State Fullerton in July, the Wilhite family thanked the paramedics and doctors for saving Jon and offered their condolences and prayers to the Adenhart, Pearson and Stewart families. At the time, Wilhite spoke haltingly, walked stiffly and heavily favored...