Word: foray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard could manage only an occasional foray into the Penn zone in the second half, the best opportunity coming when Smith challenged the Penn netminder one-on-one with just over six remaining. The Harvard captain, however, dribbled just a little too hard on the artificial surface and Tabak was able to thwart the potential tie-breaking effort...
THIS FILM is director Weill's first foray into Hollywood-backed, large budget production. She also directed the promising independent production Girlfriends several years ago. It's My Turn has lost the special personal intimacy of Girlfriends without gaining in technical virtuosity. Its visually unengaging photography may sketch the plot, but is without artistic merit...
...openers, the Crimson expected to win. Cornell arrived with a 2-6 record, including several dismal performances recently. The stickwomen, who proved against New Hampshire two weeks ago that they could play with anyone, owned a 3-3-1 mark and, after an embarrassing foray to Penn last Saturday, wanted to bounce back with their first...
...real significance of the investment is that it was Harvard's first foray into the world of independent "venture capitalism"--the process of buying into high-risk, high-reward business. The University became interested in these investments--which now make up 1 per cent of the total--about two years ago, but it always purchased them through limited partnership with other investors...
Israeli Phantom jets screeched over the Litani River, pummeling Palestinian artillery positions with bombs and rockets. Strike troops assaulted 18 different guerrilla positions. In a dramatic foray against Beaufort Castle, once a Crusaders' stronghold, Israeli attackers and Palestinian defenders engaged in vicious hand-to-hand combat. One artillery barrage alone, against Palestinian encampments in the town of Nabatiye, dropped an estimated 2,500 shells. Said a survivor: "They came down on us like rain...