Word: daggered
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...Hayes was the only Brown player who ever crossed halfcourt. “That’s a mistake there,” Delaney-Smith said. “That turned into a foot race we shouldn’t have been in.” Hayes’ dagger silenced a Harvard bench that had erupted after Robinson sank two free throws to tie the game at 62 with just under four seconds remaining. “It was pretty brutal,” co-captain Maureen McCaffery said. “We weren’t really expecting...
...armed with a club and a dagger, he joined the older moshavniks guarding the fields at night from sporadic attacks by Arab villagers living nearby. "They were not afraid of anything," he observed of the moshavniks, a quality he emulated the rest of his life. He respected the moshavniks' views about the local Arabs: they believed the Arabs had "full rights in the land" but only Jews had rights "over the land." Translation: you can live here, but under...
...completely destroyed the Crimson’s zone defense in the first half, swinging the ball to find the open shooter before Harvard could react and using cross-court skip passes to exploit the holes on the perimeter. When Harvard did close out in time to prevent yet another dagger from beyond the arc, Dartmouth’s guards fired an entry pass to the low-post for forward Sydney Scott...
Caravaggio was “mercurial, hot-tempered, violent,” according to his contemporaries. Eventually, he was also a convicted murderer, and spent the last four years of his life in exile outrunning the charges: “he slept fully clothed, with his dagger by his side,” and wandered across an Italy in full bloom, “painting almost constantly...
...After Mubarak's speech at Abdeen Palace, a man who told me he was a teacher discreetly slipped me a tiny piece of paper and then walked back into the crowd, like a spy in a cloak and dagger operation. "Pass this message," it read in scribbled red ink. "There is no democracy in Egypt and there is no dignity for the human being in this country. Those people inside the rally own Egypt, but those outside are the powerless. Signed, An Egyptian Citizen." Such clandestine protests are no longer all Mubarak has to contend with, however. Even his very...