Word: chased
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...evil that Newmark believes he is fighting is spammers, scammers and other cyberparasites who threaten to chase away his site's loyal following. "The culture of trust we've built is a really big deal," says Newmark, 50, who spends most of his workdays patrolling the message boards and dealing with customer-service problems reported by members. "We have to re-earn that every...
With any luck, their young teammates will realize that and be similarly inspired to “get over the hump” and chase that elusive league title. And if they can’t quite get there and suffer more heartbreak, they can always take solace in the adage that always rings true, especially with the coming of spring in Boston...
...Harvard wasted little time bringing Silverthorn back to reality, knocking him out of the game with four first-period goals. Silverthorn seemed to be rattled by a cheap first goal, which bounced in off a sliding Tim Pettit. The Crimson took a little longer to chase backup David Cann, but he was ultimately pulled for freshman walk-on Scott Annan, who saw his first-ever action. Annan had the best success of any Red Raider goalie, stopping the only shot he faced...
...case against reality TV is mainly moral--and there's a point to it. It's hard to defend the deception of Joe Millionaire--which set up 20 women to court construction worker Evan Marriott by telling them he was a multimillionaire--as hilarious as its fool's-gold chase can be. Even the show's Potemkin Croesus contends that producers hid the show's premise from him until the last minute. "The day before I left for France, I signed confidentiality papers which said what the show was about," Marriott tells TIME. "At that point, could I really back...
Antebellum America was a world of constant low-intensity warfare between abolitionists and slavers in hot pursuit of their "property." The rising tide of escapees led to cross-border raids by Southern slaveholders who were emboldened by federal laws that gave them the right to chase runaways into free states. Hired slave hunters prowled the riverbanks, hoping to catch blacks and drag them south for cash. When no runaways were available, free-black citizens--there were 200,000 in the Northern states by 1860--could be clubbed and hustled across the river into captivity. Pro-slavery Northerners destroyed printing presses...