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Word: effortful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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With time winding down, the Crimson turned on its offense in an effort to push the game in to overtime. With 3:57 to go in the third, Moore took a hard slapshot from the point but Stirling proved once again to be a wall. Sophomore winger Jeff Stonehouse and Moore took a couple of rebound shots only thirty seconds later, but couldn't break Stirling's impenetrable hold...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Falls to Stirling, Brown, 4-2 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...relatives during the 30-year conflict and are understandably wary. But optimism is suddenly once again the order of the day now that the Ulster Unionist Party has voted to allow its enemy, Sinn Fein, into the region's nascent government without first making a least a token effort to disarm its military wing, the IRA. The condition, which has already rubbed Sinn Fein members the wrong way, is that the IRA will have to begin disarming by January 31. "We've jumped," Unionist leader David Trimble said in a statement aimed at Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. "You follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland Protestants Call the IRA's Bluff | 11/28/1999 | See Source »

Harvard policy also says no more than 20 percent of a faculty member's "professional effort" can go to outside ventures...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Miller's On-Line Courses Spark Review of Policy | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...puck sprang loose to Dyment at the point, who aimed a slap shot at Prestifilippo's right post. Heron, in an effort to ensure the goal, redirected the shot past Prestifilippo, securing...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B.U. Blasts M. Hockey, 2-1 | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...relatives who make the special effort to convene in one place for one day, from grandparents who pull our cheeks to aunts who can't stop chattering. To little cousins who gleefully scatter those leaves we just raked. Thank...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Thoughts Before Turkey Dinner | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

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