Word: hard-fought
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...Dodgeball is a man’s sport, and when I say man I mean both men and women and not animals, because you need hands to play the game,” said Blickstead. “But the tournament was hard-fought. Some teams were competitive, some were non-competitive, and then there was the deans’ team...
...with 14 seconds to play, Colgate again found itself with possession of the ball and a chance to tie or take the lead. This time, the Harvard defense held its ground, as junior Matt Stehle stole the ball from Colgate guard Kyle Roemer with five seconds left, sealing the hard-fought victory for the Crimson...
That triumph propelled them into the next stage of post-season qualifying and a showdown with rival Vassar. Although the Radcliffe side competed valiantly, they ultimately fell by a five-point margin in the hard-fought game...
...Burns. During a hard-fought Indiana gubernatorial race that saw opponents hurling media brickbats at each other to the tune of $31 million, a state spending record, incumbent Democrat Joe Kernan joked that challenger Mitch Daniels, head of the Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush, resembled The Simpsons' distasteful plutocrat. Hoosier voters, however, responded to Daniels' fiscal savvy--and to the coattails of his former boss--making him the state's first Republican Governor since...
Coming after the 2000 cliffhanger and a negative, hard-fought campaign, it's no surprise that John Kerry's loss would leave Democrats deflated and searching for answers. "We had the money, we had a ground operation the likes of which has never been seen, and we had a good candidate who stood toe to toe with the President and bested him in three debates," sighs Harold Ickes, who ran two of the cash-rich outside groups that sprang up in this election to help the Democrats contend with the G.O.P. fund-raising advantage. "We had all that...