Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final seconds ticked down on the game clock, I glanced down at the Harvard bench. There was a brief stoppage of play, and the sound system blared a cheerful tune over the intercom. Sitting along side his teammates, Harvard defenseman Pete McLaughlin was tapping out the tune against the boards...
...POLES OF SUPPORT holding up Pat Buchanan are polar opposites. Bay, sister, spitfire campaign chairman, is the prototype of the postfeminist woman. She works round the clock, rears three kids on her own, yet insists that she's a traditionalist. Shelley, wife, constant campaign companion, is an unrepentant prefeminist. She defines herself almost exclusively through her husband and prefers it that way. For a premodern man like Pat, independence may be tolerable in a sister but never in a spouse...
...watching the news can see him talking to Iowa farmers (two-thirds of whom were college students bused in from Ohio to give the event a shot of adrenaline). It has all the authenticity of an infomercial audience whooping it up for the Veg-O-Matic at two o'clock in the morning...
However, Brown was undeterred and narrowed the Harvard lead to six, 31-25 with 43.2 seconds remaining in the half. But Feaster, working on the perimeter, made yet another big play. Catching the ball with the shot clock winding down, the sophomore drained a huge three-pointer, increasing the Crimson lead to nine points, 34-25 at intermission...
...second came with only 38 ticks left on the period's clock on a wrap-around shot by Mleczko again over MacLiver's right shoulder...