Word: hoopes
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...game began innocuously enough, with the score tied at four with 18:41 remaining in the first half. But the hoop swapping ended early as a Peltjo layup triggered an 11-2 run over the next four minutes that put Central down for good...
Trailing 59-57 with 1.2 seconds remaining in regulation, the Lady Flames had a final, desperation attempt to tie. Liberty set a back screen for Margeviciute as she rolled toward the hoop. She caught a baseball pass in the paint from Daina Staugaitiene, turned to the basket and cashed in an easy layup at the horn, sending the game into overtime...
...Sara L. Bartel ’06) moves in age from 35 to 17 to 15 to 13 and finally 11 throughout the course of the play, she has subtle props to aid her transformation: a hair tie, a scarf tied loosely around the waist and large silver hoop earrings. But she remains in the same basic outfit throughout the duration of the play, and the audience mainly relies on Bartel’s gestures and mannerisms to indicate her shifting...
...accuser, who lives in a comfortable two-story beige frame house with a basketball hoop above the garage door, is already the subject of speculation about her emotional frailty--classmates say she had broken up with her boyfriend and was devastated by the death of a friend--and reports about her active sex life at the University of Northern Colorado, where she has completed her first year. But under Colorado's "rape shield statute," a complainant's previous sexual activity is deemed irrelevant and inadmissible. Rape is an act of violence. Period...
...respect." But the environmentalists, too, had difficulty in some areas. Proposals for two new whale sanctuaries, in the South Atlantic and the South Pacific, were shot down again. Such moves require the support of three-fourths of voting members rather than a simple majority. "It's a very high hoop to have to jump through," says Margi Prideaux, Australian director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. But the breakthrough came in the bold new Mexican-led Berlin Initiative - co-sponsored by 12 anti-whaling European countries, plus Kenya, Brazil, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Its architect, Andr...