Word: hitting
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Hench was first fouled trying to make a run into the offensive third. Junior defender Matt Edwards stepped up to take the indirect kick, and hit a short ball on the ground to Hench, who was making a hard run to the near post. The senior had clearly beaten his man and was pulled down only six yards from...
...against a team that had lost six of its last seven games coming into Saturday's match, the Crimson should have been confident after one of their best starts all season. But in a scene familiar to Harvard soccer fans, the team hit the self-destruct button only minutes later...
Clearly, when revoking Glass-Steagall, the government wasn't thinking about the little man. The people who benefit from larger-than-life banks are those in perhaps the top 0.1 percent income range. The reforms enacted by Glass-Steagall hit the deep-pocketed very hard by diminishing the amount of money they could amass at a time. The Act's intent was to redistribute the balance of financial clout in the American economy and thereby prevent another financial crisis like the Depression...
...Weed] got the ball and hit it off of the inside post," Wheaton said. "Those are the breaks. We benefited from one of those [in the 1-0 win] against UConn and today we didn't. Sometimes you get the bounce, sometimes...
...spot--the issues that stir his deepest feelings, trigger his best thinking and ignite his most persuasive oratory. John McCain's sweet spot may be the smallest of all the presidential contenders', but it's also the most powerful. He's like an old-fashioned persimmon-wood golf club--hit it just right, and the ball sails a mile; miss by a hair, and it squibs into the rough. Ask him what's wrong with the campaign-money game or Clinton's foreign policy, and McCain can be dazzling--puzzled and outraged but full of strong, simple ideas for cleaning...