Word: knocked
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...crowd cheered as the two players battled it out on the side. Finally, Heinhuis saw an opportunity to knock the puck away, and took swipe at the puck from in between Banfield’s legs. As the puck came free, co-captain Angela Ruggiero gained possession, finding a clear path to the net. Instead, she stopped in her tracks, turning back to her teammate in a selfless act that sacrificed an opportunity to be the game’s hero but embodied the team spirit that has driven Harvard this far into the postseason. In short, Ruggiero did just...
Back home in New Jersey, fat men didn't bellow songs in his honor. Back home women didn't stare while he shopped, kids didn't knock on his door for his signature, people didn't, as he says, consider their lives complete if they just got a whiff of his cologne. One day last summer Tim Howard was a 24-year-old from North Brunswick who happened to play soccer for a living; supremely gifted and almost wholly obscure. He could walk through his local mall wearing a jersey with his name stitched...
...some insight into women today, a randomly sampled pop-sociological glimpse into what female authors have to say about themselves in relation to the places they travel, the company they keep, the food they eat and the society that at any given time can either boost them up or knock them down. After a few hours of perusing through these works, I was surprisingly nauseated...
...four of the top seeds will not make the Final Four—it’s just a given. So you have to figure out a way to knock one, maybe two, out somewhere in the Sweet 16 or Elite Eight. In the end, you’re either going to pick teams randomly or work out some psychotic mathematical process of elimination that will likely leave you with the same outcome—finishing unspectacularly in your bracket and down five dollars...
...freaked out a few senior Disney executives. "It has actually happened a number of times," Depp says. "At the end of the first take on the first day they say 'Cut,' and then ... silence. I mean silence that's deafening. And you're constantly waiting for the knock on the door--'Uh, Johnny? It's not gonna work, man.' But what are you going to do? It's only a movie...