Word: lead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard continued to press, but found its advances frustrated by an Eagle defense loaded with up to eight defenders trying to preserve the lead...
...three first-period goals were so crucial because, once Dartmouth had a comfortable two-goal lead, it could lay back and pack in the zone on defense. That's what the Big Green did in the second period, when Harvard peppered Dartmouth junior goaltender Meaghan Cahill with 16 shots--its most productive period of the game...
...final 1:43 of the second, with Harvard enjoying a five-on-three advantage, the Crimson reeled off a sequence of excellent scoring chances. But Cahill turned them all away, including a sprawling deflection of a shot from Shewchuk at the doorstep, to preserve the two-goal lead...
...certain Harvard would deliver the game-winner, as it had done so many times last year. But Cahill refused to let that happen. Late in the third she hustled out of the crease to prevent Francisco from scoring on a breakaway that would have given Harvard its first lead of the game. That play gave Dartmouth new life, and the Big Green cashed in during overtime...
...vote in the U.N.'s 185-member General Assembly, joining the company of such scofflaws as Somalia, Iraq and Sierra Leone. American delinquency has sullied the U.S.'s prestige at the U.N., and may be gnawing away at American credibility overseas. How, foreign-policy types worry, can a nation lead if it won't even pay its bills? Late last week congressional Republicans remained deadlocked with the Administration over the arrears. Under one proposal, Congress would release enough money to allow the U.S. to retain its seat in the General Assembly. The nation's Security Council slot...