Word: blows
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...example, co-captain and 1997 All-American Brooke Herlihy, playing at the No. 2 spot for the Crimson, accidentally jolted Yale's Loren Smith during a stroke, and the Yale coaching staff discovered that Smith had lost a tooth from Herlihy's inadvertent blow. As a result, Herlihy won her match by default...
...gleaned from Jasper, Texas, is not that a racist murderer, John William King, was convicted and sentenced to die on Thursday for the horrific dragging death of a black man behind a pickup truck. The lesson, says TIME correspondent Sam Gwynne, is that the community did not blow apart over the crime; it let the criminal justice system run its course...
...fatal blow came Saturday night, when the front-running Tigers (14-9, 9-2) won a first-to-50 contest, 51-48, in double overtime. Freshman Katie Gates, whose 30-foot buzzer-beater vanquished Dartmouth earlier this season, launched a 50-foot prayer at the end of the second overtime session, but the shot clanged off the side...
...President uncommonly sensitive about his place in history, this must be a staggering blow. There are some who fear that Clinton is getting off, as they say, scot-free. Scot-free? He is already a man hopelessly damaged in the eyes of his wife, his daughter, his friends, his supporters and the nation itself, as well as in the judgment of history. However much he may pride himself on supernatural skills as an escape artist, he can never escape the stain of presidential misbehavior and personal betrayal...
Intercut with the tales of his voyages with Darwin are chapters depicting Covington's old age. Settled on the Australian coast, he awaits the delivery of an early copy of The Origin of Species. A reader's expectation, of course, is that the book will blow away Covington's Christian piety, but it's a measure of McDonald's wisdom and subtle understanding of human ties that something altogether stranger happens. Evolution, as Mr. Darwin's Shooter demonstrates, is driven by forces more nuanced and mysterious than the crude survival of the fittest...