Word: ekes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard baseball team almost froze last night in cold, near empty, McCoy Stadium, home of the Pawtucket Red Sox, but survived two late-inning rallies by a fired-up Brown squad to eke...
...brief moments Rutledge seemed destined to ride the momentum of his nine-bout win streak into the finals. He jumped out to a quick 4-2 lead over Sarikas, but the final touch Rutledge needed to advance failed to go his way and Sarikas rallied to eke out a 5-4 decision...
...latest inventions. There is the constant pressure to struggle for a few extra dollars of income, even though after a certain plateau is reached money has little bearing on happiness. And once the money is earned there comes the burning desire to find new ways to spend it and eke just a little more pleasure out of it. These and other things keep us on a treadmill, expending not only endless amounts of oil and gas on unsatisfying enterprise, but wasting our very humanity itself...
...enough steel. In San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. is having to ration blue jeans to stores because of a scarcity of denim. In Los Angeles, American Chemical Corp. is having trouble getting enough raw materials to make plastic steering wheels, garden hoses and bottles. Capitol Records is trying to eke out supplies of vinyl by recycling old pressings...
Crimson fans can remain certain of their team's superiority if it takes such a mismatch of varsity and junior varsity ballplayers for B.U. to eke out a 21-20 victory...