Word: derrick
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...first day they were a little bit stressed. They're eating very well, and Thor, the one who talks, said, 'Good morning,' straight away." DERRICK COYLE, Raven Master at the Tower of London, where fears of bird flu forced the famous birds to be moved indoors from the grassy inner courtyard...
...seen a favorite uncle executed. Now, at 32, he is perfecting an entirely new skill, which could change this region as much as the wars in which he has fought have: drilling for oil. Since late November, he has toiled about 30 ft. aboveground on the first derrick erected in Kurdistan in decades, by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things. From the top, there is a panoramic view of the hills around his tiny village of Tawke, where 30 families eke out a meager living herding sheep. It hardly looks like the location for a major...
...paint and holding SMU to 12. A more assertive man-to-man defense clamped down on the Mustangs’ post game, as the Crimson forced 12 second-half turnovers and held SMU’s starting frontcourt to just four points after the break. Mustang forward Derrick Roberts—who compiled 10 first half points on 5-of-9 shooting—took just one shot in the second half...
...wasted little time returning to form. After a team-high 19 points against Wyoming on Dec. 19, Hopkins hit three first half three-pointers and racked up 13 points against the Crimson. He finished with four assists, the most electrifying coming on a first half alley-oop to Derrick Roberts...
...just 6-of-24 from the floor in the opening half and went 9:56 without a field goal—a stretch during which a 12-8 SMU lead swelled to a 40-9 advantage for the hosts. An electrifying alley-oop pass from Bryan Hopkins to forward Derrick Roberts with 7:18 to go punctuated the run. “We were all very, very, discouraged by the early transitions in the game,” Sullivan said. “We couldn’t make shots, [and] the biggest thing that compounded it even more...