Word: competitors
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...former competitor on the West Coast "A-Circuit," and a current member of the Harvard Polo Team, my criticism may seem a bit severe. However, given the limited attention paid to equestrian sports at Harvard in general, one should hope that an article whose purpose is to give recognition to the sport as well as to its participants might at least be grammatically if not factually accurate. Alexandra Browne...
When you come to bat, dare to swing against Oakland native Dave Stewart, the game's most feral competitor, whose "death stare" would spook Cyclops. Or face Bob Welch, the first American League pitcher since 1968 to win 26 games in a season. Try hitting a grounder through the A's stingy infield. And if you hope to rally, ponder the presence of ace reliever Dennis Eckersley, who has issued only seven bases on balls in two years. You can run but you can't walk...
UConn has been a particularly tough competitor in the past, posting a 10-1-2 alltime record against the Crimson. Last year, the Huskies outlasted Harvard, 2-1, on its way to a top-20 finish...
...Shaalan One camp, civility ends when the water truck arrives. As cries of "Water! Water!" erupt in a babel of languages from hundreds of parched throats, men and women battle their way to the nozzle of the tanker. One feverish man grabs a stone and threatens to bash a competitor's skull. Meanwhile, most of the precious liquid spills on the ground and vanishes into the sand...
...Deukmejian for signing. Another bill would require store owners to lock up millions of cans of spray paint to prevent shoplifting by taggers. But it is unlikely that such supply-side measures will quench the tagging urges of the Los Angeles spray-can artist known as Chaka and his competitor Ozone, who have left their gaudy signatures some 15,000 times across the breadth of the Los Angeles basin...