Word: drought
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...impossible. Roche’s third three at 6:13 of the first frame punctuated a 9-0 Richmond run that put the hosts up 30-19. When freshman center Emma Moretzsohn stopped the surge with a layup at 4:14 remaining—ending a Harvard scoring drought of more than five minutes—Roche responded with another three-pointer to give the Spiders a 12-point lead. “That was tough—to give up 20 points to somebody who wasn’t really one of their main players,” Hallion...
...once flashy city has become drab. The grass and trees, marinated for weeks in saltwater, are a dreary gray-brown. Parking lots look like drought-starved lake beds, with cracks in the mud. Within a few hours, anyone working outside is covered in a fine layer of grit. The trees that gave New Orleans such character--the centuries-old live oaks with their grand canopies and graceful lines--are toppled, exposing huge root balls 10 ft. or more in diameter. It's all the more surreal because the Garden District, which survived the flood, is lush and beautiful once again...
...discussion of an Ivy title drought must begin with the dominance of Penn and Princeton. The Quakers and Tigers have combined to claim a share of all but six Ivy titles and have grabbed a piece of all but two championships since 1962 (Brown 1985-86 and Cornell...
...been 60 years since Wyndol Gray ’46, who played a season with the Boston Celtics, captained that Crimson squad to a bid in the Big Dance. Few teams in that span have had as good a chance as this Harvard squad to end that drought...
Jane Anderson: I’m not a Midwesterner, but I have enormous respect for the Midwest sensibility. The thing about the Midwest is that it’s a farm culture, and the farmers know that if their crops are destroyed by drought or locust or freezing, they can’t sit on their porch and cry about it. They have to get back on the tractor and plow the field. And it’s that kind of sensibility that I admire, and that’s Evelyn Ryan’s sensibility. Some people call...