Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Springfield's first tally came with nine minutes left in the first half. Springfield's Kathy Noble took a centering pass on a penalty corner play and slipped it by the screened Harvard goalie, Ellen Seidler, to foil Seidler's bid for a fourth straight shutout, and put Springfield ahead...
...conservative tactics only failed once in the opening period and ironically the cluster of defenders in the penalty area undid the team in that instance. With 6:04 gone, Harvard tallied when sophomore center-half Kathy Batter placed a soft shot into the left corner of the goal as B.U. goaltender Kristy Tyre watched helplessly, screened off by her own teammates...
...siren screaming, a grim-faced detective whizzes around a corner and tears through a fruit stand, sending cantaloupes flying. A dozen red lights and near-collisions later, he finally forces the villain into an alley and arrests...
...consists of six hours of class instruction (usually in a converted saloon near Dallas) and 18 hours of driving on a course with turns known as Serpentine, Lollypop and T-Bone Alley. Turner emphasizes calm, smooth movements and no tire-squealing maneuvers. "Think slow," he tells students. "Make a corner better, and you can catch the guy even if he's going 20 miles an hour faster than...
This is not simply because the U.S. role in that conflict ended with a whimper; unreconstructed Southerners and the Irish have shown how immortal ballads rise from lost causes. But Viet Nam dragged on too bitterly and too long to be tucked comfortably into a corner of the mind. Between the memorable images of self-immolating monks and returning American P.O.W.s, there stretched a decade of contradictory violence and rhetoric that splintered the country. Trying to remember, much less grasp, that history now seems like reopening a scar...