Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meanwhile, had not only survived the first half against the wind, but actually found itself in the lead. With a goal already in hand, and the wind in the Crimson's face, B.C. could focus solely on holding its one-goal margin...
...Going against the wind on the road, we just wanted to go into the half 0-0," Foley said. "When we went in ahead 1-0, I told the team that the score just might remain that way. I told them to play the rest of the way in three 15-minute periods, concentrating on playing hard defense in each of them...
...Harvard was not fazed by Cahill, or by her teammates' physical defense. The Crimson needed two goals in the third period, and that was just what it got. Playing shorthanded, Ruggiero fought her way into the crease to cut the deficit in half 1:41 into the final period. Junior winger Angie Francisco got the equalizer 10 minutes later by putting back the rebound on a shot from Shewchuk, her linemate...
...considered a virtue. In meetings with his speechwriter and press staff, Bush reviews the words that will go out under his name with a keen eye for the pompous and overwrought. When he spots a sentence that wouldn't make sense to the average layman, Bush peers over his half glasses and reads it back to his staff in a haughty, mock-intellectual voice. "He's always asking,'How can we say it more directly?'"says a top aide...
...Friday several hundred people showed up in Cedar Rapids to see him. Earlier in the day he got a standing-room-only group of 700 in Davenport and 500 people came out in Sioux City last Tuesday night. Out in farm country, that's packing them in; only half as many had shown up for Bush a week earlier...