Word: gear
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Harvard has 84 points, 11 less than seventh-ranked RPI, the other ECAC representative in the top 10. The Engineers (5-2-0) are in high gear after a shocking 5-4 road upset of defending national champion and second-ranked Maine in the finals of the Dexter Classic in Orono, Me. on Saturday...
...recent weeks Yale's offense has been sputtering, scoring only 14 points in the last three games. The imbalanced Yale attack has allowed defenses to gear up for the pass, as Harvard certainly will Saturday...
Mistakes and miscues made in the field bear out that assessment. In Mogadishu a lack of proper equipment has cost scores of lives. Pakistan sent 5,000 troops who did not have telephones, walkie-talkies, flak jackets, tear gas and even batons. Gear was eventually provided by other countries, but not before some of the poorly protected troops died in ambushes, and Somali civilians were killed when soldiers without riot gear fired their guns to dispel angry crowds. The U.N. has yet to organize an efficient communications network or stockpile enough rations. At one point food and water...
Under the present verbal agreement between Rosenberry and Sullivan, Converse provides 15 team members with sneakers, socks, bags and other gear...
...viewers. And the script deserves to be adopted as the acid-proof test for actors, directors and technical crew: It calls for snap transitions from jovial wedding festivities to ghoulish capering around severed heads to whiling the day away on the rack. Even with cast and crew in high gear, the audience has to work hard at suspending the old disbelief...