Word: broking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard 39-26, and further added to their numbers by capitalizing on the numerous Crimson turnovers to score 27 points. Despite a career-best 23-point contribution from junior forward Evan Harris, Harvard fell to the Bulldogs, 83-71.“We certainly battled them until the dam broke about four or five minutes before halftime,” Amaker said. “I thought it was just a stretch there where they blew it open and ignited things and got out in transition.”A large rally by the opposing team translated into another loss...
...Harvard mailing list to which I subscribe, an impassioned 28-message e-brawl broke out. The subject was the relevance of the most visible attributes of our new dean—her race and gender—to her appointment...
...inner circle feel well prepared for this sort of fight. Students of the Clintons' long career have noted that they do better in a scrape. Combat brings them to the balls of their feet; by contrast, they tend to spring leaks on calm seas. Clinton's successful attacks broke Obama's 12-win streak that had buoyed him through a month of victories, and her advisers now feel they have put a stick in the spokes of his momentum. "They thought they could kill us," a Clinton campaign official crowed as the Ohio and Texas results were coming in. "They...
...have not and not only have I not, but after we broke up or after she dumped me or after it ended, however you want to phrase it, I never saw or spoke to her again. But we still have one friend in common and that person will eventually get married and the moment will come where we’ll see each other...
Still there is no denying the good fortune that has helped McCain secure the nomination. Just two months ago, the Arizona Senator was still a distant long shot, operating a bare-bones campaign on a bank loan with a dilapidated staff of mostly unpaid advisors. Then almost everything broke his way: Mike Huckabee won Iowa, crippling the powerhouse campaign of Mitt Romney. Rudy Giuliani abandoned New Hampshire, allowing his moderate supporters to shift to McCain. Fred Thompson stayed in the race until South Carolina, bleeding enough votes away from Huckabee to allow McCain to win that key state. Even Huckabee...