Word: daggering
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...Crimson a 4-1 lead and essentially put the game out of reach for the Big Green.“It kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little bit,” Hudak said. “I really think that that was [the] dagger. [It’s] pretty tough to come back from something like that.”Harvard completed its offensive outburst 13:26 into the final period when Brine and Vaillancourt teamed up yet again to bring the score to 5-1. Vaillancourt took the puck behind the net before serving...
...said. “Our forwards were able to play a more traditional defense than they would have if she had been on the court.” With Maduka out, Cornell’s focus shifted to guard play and particularly to three-point shooting—the dagger that doomed Harvard two weeks ago in Ithaca. The Big Red shot just 28 percent from beyond the arc for the night, but sophomore Lauren Benson’s gutsy trey cut Harvard’s lead to one with just under two to play. The first half lacked...
...virtue of being played indoors, accompanies the "great chieftain o' the puddin-race" born aloft to the table by a chef. Then, a wild-eyed Scotsman recites Robert Burns' poem Address To a Haggis, and upon reaching the line, "An' cut ye up wi' ready sleight," he plunges a dagger into the taut sheep's stomach amid cheers from the diners. In a ritual repeated by Scots across the globe on Burns Night, January 25, the birthday in 1759 of their most cherished poet, the attack on the main course continues...
...wasn't in his Cheshire home, but actually at his house in Florida. He would send it to the court once he retrieved it; in the meantime, Burrell would let the judge in on the secret - as long as he didn't tell. But Baker said the cloak-and-dagger act was inappropriate - and unnecessary. "The secret is actually two secrets," he told the court. "And it doesn't seem to me that they are actually secrets at all." In fact, he added, Burrell had published one of them in his 2006 book, The Way We Were...
...second half, Lowe struck four times from long distance, scoring 15 points after the break. Housman pulled Harvard within one, 52-51, with a three pointer and then again, 54-53, after sinking two from the line. But at the 13:10 mark, a dagger from Lowe catalyzed the tear that would climax in a 10-point lead for the Terriers.“That hurt us in the past, that hurt us at Providence, that hurt us here tonight,” Amaker said. “I’m hopeful that at some point we?...