Word: droving
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...were held up by police at a corner, and while we bounced on our toes impatiently, a motorcade turned past us. Inside a black Escalade sat the new first family. They waved. We waved. And as the car drove onwards, bound for the Miley Cyrus concert, everyone on the corner hugged each other in shock, laughing and crying and screaming, “I can’t believe...
...scoreboard at halftime, his players needed a major pick-me-up to reverse the tide of the game and construct a substantial comeback against a cruising Brown team. And in a few short minutes, Amaker gave them wings.To start the second half, junior guard Jeremy Lin first drove the ball in for a layup before accepting a pass from senior guard Drew Housman and launching a three pointer on Harvard’s next possession. Lin’s five points started a 13-2 run that brought the Crimson to within one possession of catching Brown...
...only Stock to beat, Vaillancourt slid a neat pass into the path of an onrushing Brine to finish—the tri-captains combining to put Harvard up, 1-0.As the first period drew to a close, the Crimson doubled its advantage. Intercepting a pass from a Brown defender, Chute drove past her opponent on the Bears, the Harvard tri-captain clipped the puck over Stock and into the net, increasing the lead at a crucial time for the Crimson.“I think it was a really good win for us...we started right from the first period which...
...Marxist guerrillas probably rue the day they kidnapped state legislator Sigifredo Lopez and his colleagues. Disguised as police agents, the rebels stormed a government building in the southern city of Cali in 2002, announced a bomb threat and then herded a dozen lawmakers, including Lopez, aboard a bus and drove them into the mountains. But the operation ended up in one of the ghastliest blunders of Colombia's four-decade-long civil war. In June 2007, guerrilla guards mistakenly thought they were under attack by the army and, in a panic, executed 11 of the hostages. Lopez alone survived...
...Dahlan certainly has a score to settle with Hamas, which routed his U.S.-funded security forces in a 2007 showdown and drove them out of Gaza. And the Islamists have long loathed the Fatah strongman, whom they blame for alleged torture of Hamas detainees in Gaza during the late 1990s - an accusation Dahlan denies. But Hamas appears to be in no mood for unity talks with Dahlan's boss, either, despite Arab efforts to broker a reconciliation. And that could imperil the flow of international aid to Gaza, battered by Israel's 19-month economic blockade and the war that...