Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard did rally from five- and two-run deficits to knot the game, and it will have to use that momentum to propel it into this weekend's double doubleheader against Dartmouth...
...Quakers darted out to an early 2-0 lead Saturday afternoon, but Harvard didn't let them get far. The Crimson battled back in the third and fourth innings to knot the score at 2-2. But when the Penn bats began to connect in the late innings of the game, it was all Harvard could do to sit back and watch...
...move on to the less glorious parts. The line, which can trap the unlucky first year for 30 minutes, is most comparable to quicksand, or perhaps the traffic in the Callahan tunnel. Going in it may not seem so bad; but after 30 minutes in a warm, noisy knot o people the room begins to spin and the lights flicker...
...August afternoon in 1985, Aldrich Hazen Ames exchanged vows with Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy in a charming little church nestled by a hill in Arlington, Virginia. It was the bridegroom's second marriage, the bride's first. The small knot of family members and friends, sweltering in the humid, 87 degreesF air, might have expected to be rewarded with a meal for their attendance. But after the ceremony, guests were offered only wine. Ames explained that he couldn't afford a fancy reception because the cost of his previous marriage's breakup had cleaned him out. Guests...
...world has seen him as a political, even polemic one, and his works are valued more as testimony against apartheid than for their subtle interplay of emotion and Beckettian sensitivity to the downtrodden. For many people, Fugard's dramas mattered less than the taboos they broke -- The Blood Knot put a black actor alongside a white one on the same Johannesburg stage -- and the punishments they brought, including revocation of his passport and virtual house arrest from 1967 to 1971. Those experiences ensured a niche in history but also made his storytelling seem limited to a place and time...