Word: closing
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...home over one month ago to hand the Scarlet Raiders their first league loss of the season. Facing a 2-1 deficit, the host team picked up its offense when it needed it most, relying on clutch hitting by co-captain Brady Weissbourd and freshman Matt Jones to close out its second league win. Currently riding a string of three consecutive road wins, the Crimson will do its best to use past performances to its advantage...
Coming off of consecutive one-goal losses to No. 3 Cornell and No. 2 Princeton, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team dropped another close contest yesterday in its match at Harvard Stadium against Brown...
...getting big hits when we need them and doing just enough to win.”Add a number of come-from-behind victories as well, and Harvard’s season has not been short on drama.Given the Crimson’s proven mettle in close games, nobody is ruling out a late-season surge to put the squad atop the Rolfe Division and into the Ivy championship.“We just want to make sure we can play up to our capabilities and I think the wins will take care of themselves,” Walsh said...
...some 300 years, however, sugaring stuck close by that rural idyll. Early settlers in the U.S. Northeast and Canada learned about sugar maples from Native Americans. Various legends exist to explain the initial discovery. One is that the chief of a tribe threw a tomahawk at a tree, sap ran out and his wife boiled venison in the liquid. Another version holds that Native Americans stumbled on sap running from a broken maple branch...
...living on - especially for a candidate who loses. And while it wouldn't be seemly for a Secretary of State to be out there personally collecting checks on the rubber-chicken circuit, Hillary Clinton is lucky enough to have some big names willing to do something close to that on her behalf...