Word: dinked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though Harvard dominated the contest, the Quakers started stronger, opening up a 3-0 lead in the first game. Terry Martin then triggered a seven-point rally as the Crimson pulled in front to stay, 9-4. A Penn dink and momentary miscommunication between Nadkarni and the elder Martin aided a three-point Quaker comeback. But superb team defense paved the way to a 15-7 Crimson victory. Ross blocked three shots and Nadkarni fixed two service winners to set the final score. In the second and deciding game Twite led a 12-2 surge as Harvard fought back...
...spikers forged ahead for the first time thanks to Panther mistakes, winning three straight points to establish an 11-8 advantage. This time it was Pitt's turn to come back as two short spikes and a dink forced an 11-11 deadlock. Sophomore Jon Ross's inside salvo and a smart defensive play by senior Captain Brad Martin gave Harvard a 12-11 lead. But strong Panther serves threw the Crimson off balance and Pitt captured the next four points to take the first stanza...
...Hacker's Dictionary, one finds gronk (a verb that means to become unusable, as in "the monitor gronked"), gweep (one who spends unusually long periods of time hacking), cuspy (anything that is exceptionally good or performs its functions exceptionally well), dink (to modify in some small way so as to produce large or catastrophic results), bag biter (equipment or program that fails, usually intermittently) and deadlock (a situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for the other to do something. This is the electronic equivalent of gridlock, a lovely, virtually perfect word...
...Crimson seemed to miss the decisive points, and just when the momentum could have turned its way, an MIT player was there to take it away, Net action dominated, as Harvard's Lockhart, Anna Collins, Nina Henderson and Ellen Schreiber went block for block and dink for dink...
Harvard didn't play poorly in its opener against the Quakers, a very good team. Penn's 15-8, 15-9 victory resulted from sparkling shot placement and an assortment of off-speed dink shots. Most of the time, the Crimson just couldn't get to the half to scoop it up before it hit the floor...