Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corners, Harvard's defense couldn't cope with all of the B.U. options. Barnard would hit the ball out, and Kim Koss would stop it for either Vera Schofield (a lift specialist) or Leonie Kortenhorst (a hard shooter). Meanwhile, Barnard drifted over to the post, either to receive a pass in the slot or go after a rebound...
This seemed to give the Harvard players an emotional lift going into the second half, and the play was much more aggressive...
...watched Pete lean heavily on his racket, I was sure he was done. There was no physical way for him to recover. When his first serve on the next point was hit with no speed by a man who looked barely able to lift a racket, there was little doubt...
...wasn't all a straight line to oblivion. As with his earlier speech bashing Hollywood, Dole got a lift when he resigned from the Senate in June and then again in August from a smoothly run G.O.P. convention. His selection of the energetically gifted Jack Kemp, whom Dole had reviled for years, was widely praised. But Dole's verbal and tactical missteps took their toll, confirming the electorate's fast-hardening negative verdict: Clinton was far from the heroic ideal, but Dole simply wasn't up to the job. Facing the hostility of many women voters, Dole tried modifying...
...sophomore's room in Apley Court, the wood floor was covered with a layer of gray grime that would take hours worth of elbow grease to lift...