Word: die
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...credit, the Crimson did not immediately roll over and die. The next opponent was Penn, and the score wasn't even close...
With its record 2-2, Harvard then faced Dartmouth in a do-or-die meeting. The Crimson had to win one set against a team that had defeated Harvard in two previous meetings this year...
...newspaper's first reporter to die on assignment since World War II, according to Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of The Times...
...course, traditions die hard. Even as a self-proclaimed gender policewoman, I still tend to blurt out "Freshman Week" or "Freshman Dean's Office" if I am not being careful. Dean Lewis does have a point that "first-year" might sound a little awkward, and that there might be a better substitute to the offending word. Or maybe "freshman" is just one of those words in the "who would want to be one anyway?" category--like "garbageman" and "hitman"--that even the most strident p.c. advocates are content to leave alone...
...school, it wasn't that much of a deal except to those of us from Kentucky," Dickerson added. "I think if UMass would have been in it, it would have been a bigger deal. But since Kentucky beat UMass, only the die-hard Kentucky fans, I think, cared anything about the game...