Word: drove
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...Drew Housman set an example for Lin, righting Harvard’s ship by penetrating and dishing to forward Brad Unger to snap a seven point Big Green run. Possibly inspired, possibly emboldened, Lin immediately took charge. After collecting the next rebound, Lin took the rock coast to coast, drove hard to the basket through heavy traffic, drew the foul, and still maintained enough composure to lay in a floater from six feet out. Though he missed the ensuing free throw, Lin kept his cool, snagging the carom and quickly dropping in another smooth layup to pull the Crimson even...
Lin’s roll continued with a steal from Dartmouth guard DeVon Mosley. Once more, he drove to the basket and drew a hard foul...
...woman I used to know told me she made a point of mispronouncing words in fine restaurants, because she knew it drove her husband crazy. "What's this gunnotchy?" she would ask the waiter, pointing to gnocchi on the menu. Once she even pronounced "steak" to rhyme with "leak." Years earlier, in a snooty French eatery, her husband had expressed embarrassment over her pronunciation of huitres, and she was still getting him back. I thought about that couple as I took in this week's news of Jason and Joumana Kidd. The former, a pro basketball star, had filed...
...Many died from their injuries. It was hand-to-hand fighting. You have to kill people with your knife. One of my group climbed onto an Ethiopian tank and dropped a grenade inside the tank, but there was no blast and the tank just drove away. It was our duty to die at the front instead of being under occupation here in Mogadishu. Everyone prayed they would be killed at the front...
...with 1:53 left in the second half. Those would be the last points scored in regulation.Trailing from the start and by as many as 13 several times in the first half, the Big Green kept inching closer in the second. Finally, with 2:40 left, Pattman drove the lane and hit an off-balance reverse layup to give Dartmouth its first lead of the game at 62-61.Besides its hot shooting, the Big Green’s comeback was helped by 11 second-half Harvard turnovers. The Crimson turned it over 23 times on the game, seven by Cusworth...