Word: clawingly
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...Harvard trying to claw into Cornell's lead, Jeremy Lin unfortunately called with the traveling violation. Cornell's Alex Tyler is dominating the game...
...down big again at 70-53, but kept fighting back to get within 10 again at 77-67. But with just 3:29 to play, time ran out on the Crimson’s run.“I thought we gave great energy to try to scratch and claw to get back in it,” Amaker said. “But we dug ourselves too big of a hole.”Evan Harris had a career night for Harvard. The junior forward finished with a career-high 23 points on 11-of-14 from the foul...
...among Republicans and only Republicans; unlike New Hampshire or Iowa, there was no "independents' safety net," as a Romney staffer put it. A victory in Florida's closed primary should silence the refrain that has echoed through talk radio and conservative blogs ever since McCain started to claw his way toward the nomination: He's not a "real Republican." Says one McCain staffer: "Maybe after they see his name next to an 'R' in the general election they'll change their minds...
...much last spring, when several hours—hours!—of tepid discussion preceded the passage of Harvard’s latest undergraduate curriculum. It’s much more fun, after all, to nab a quote in the paper when one’s colleagues claw each other’s eyes out over something trivial. What fun it was when anthropologist J. Lorand Matory ’82 and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz quarreled over “free speech” (read: Israel) last Fall! When the Faculty toppled former university President Lawrence...
...campaign from his own bank account, it doesn't seem all that foolish to stay in the race, no matter how bleak his prospects might seem today. In a year when a little known Baptist minister can come from nowhere to win Iowa, a left-for-dead septuagenarian can claw out a comeback win in New Hampshire, and when Hillary Clinton can begin the day fighting back rumors that she's dropping out the race and end it by delivering a victory speech - anything is possible. And Mitt Romney might just find those votes he's looking...