Word: containable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard will also need to contain B.U.'s speedy wings and keep them from being able to center the ball to B.U.'s Nick Bone, their top scoring threat...
...know what they contain," said Pipes. "It is possible they are even more explosive than the ones in this volume...
Morris couldn't stomach Penn's new prominence. And Penn couldn't stomach Morris. From the start, the strategist had sought to repress Penn, and Penn had come to resent Morris' taking credit for his values ideas. But Morris couldn't contain Penn. Inside the White House, Penn developed a reputation as "the consultant who's not radioactive," as Stephanopoulos put it. Penn set up a jury-rigged workspace in a walk-in closet in Sosnik's West Wing basement office. This triggered Morris' paranoia, and when Penn had a one-on-one meeting with Clinton in the Oval Office...
Soon after, at a strategy session in the residence, Morris pronounced Dole's resignation their first moment of genuine peril. He stated that they had to "contain Dole's bounce" by driving up his negatives. Morris was so obsessed with this that he broke one of the campaign's cardinal rules: no personal attacks. Knocking Dole personally, after all, risked opening the character door, where Clinton was also vulnerable. Nonetheless, Morris wrote a spot that became known as "Quitter": "He told us he would lead. Then he told us he was quitting, giving up, leaving behind the gridlock he helped...
...Crimson is also to be commended for its ability to contain the Red Raiders' speedy right wing, Mike Harder. Harder, who is consider a Hobey Baker and All-American candidate, was limited to sporadic and ultimately ineffective rushes to goal...