Word: clung
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There was Harvard senior Tyler Kolarik, on the bench with less than a minute remaining in game 2 of his team’s playoff series against Vermont. The Crimson clung to a precarious 4-3 lead...
Meanwhile, Mahan’s other priority, universal keycard access, has become something of a cliche in discussions of Harvard safety. The incoming president has clung to this goal, while administrators and House masters have not budged from strong opposition...
Union goaltender Kris Mayotte did everything he could to shut Harvard down, stopping 27 shots in the first two periods as his team clung to a 1-0 lead...
...predominantly 30-40 year-old crowd mingled over live music while munching on tapas, sipping bellini martinis (the month’s featured cocktail) and admiring the beautiful early twentieth century murals by John Singer Sargent. To the right of the upper rotunda in the grand colonnade, gossiping guests clung to an ornate railing, overlooking one of the lower galleries. Others reclined in luxurious brown leather couches and chairs, chatting amidst paintings by turn-of-the-century American painters. The scene was quintessential Gatsby—cultured, decadent and highly civilized. Renaissance works by renowned artists including Anthony van Dyck...
...Iraqi street, al-Qaeda remained the principal suspect, just as it was in the case of the bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad two weeks ago. Iraqis clung to the belief that no homegrown militant group would deliberately kill so many Iraqis. "Only foreigners like the Wahhabis would kill Shi'as without hesitation," said Ali al-Rubieh, a pilgrim visiting Najaf from Basra. "They don't regard us as Muslims, anyway." The White House and Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq, described the bombing as an act of terrorism, which has become shorthand...