Word: ekes
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...tight fourth game, igniting the boisterous Harvard crowd. But several crucial kills from the Violets’ outside hitter Evan Finch—who led NYU with 19 kills, 10 digs and five blocks—sealed the Crimson’s fate, as the Violets just managed to eke out the two-point margin of victory necessary in rally scoring...
...League is the nation’s strongest squash league by far, so to win it is huge,” Whitman said. “And we crushed them. We didn’t just eke it out. We went to their house [and] crushed them...
...Fort Dodge has paid off. Iowa's first-in-the-nation contest is only a week away, and most polls show Dean holding a narrow lead over Congressman Dick Gephardt, who won the caucuses in 1988 and whose candidacy will be all but finished if he doesn't eke out another victory this time. Gephardt is drawing most of his support from older, less affluent Iowans, Dean from upscale, educated and more socially liberal voters. The choice reflects the generational struggle within the party, and it's a test of whether the new voters Dean claims to have recruited will...
...hour before the Last Chance Dance, it is the Last Chance Guitar Lesson. There is less drunkenness, but perhaps equal amounts of groping as guitar strings are urgently plucked to eke out the chords to such acoustic guitar favorites as “Blackbird,” “Mary Had A Little Lamb” and the oddly appropriate “Jamaica Farewell...
Fueled by the energetic and frenzied crowd, co-captain Alaina Aguanno, freshman Laura Maludzinski, junior Sam Piper and junior Beverly Whelan placed second in the two-mile relay, allowing the Crimson to eke out a one-point victory over the Bulldogs...