Word: lone
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...SCENE RIGHT OUT OF THE BIRDS. OUTSIDE the New Hampshire home of former state senator Barbara Pressly on a freezing winter afternoon, a lone cameraman appeared; then a second camera; then four boom mikes. Twenty minutes later, when the press was invited inside, 50 men and women with full field packs stampeded toward the front door. Finding myself by happenstance between them and their goal, I had a fleeting sensation of what General Custer might have seen in his last moment on this earth...
Harvard now has three games remaining in the regular season, and a lone victory will assure the team of an outright Ivy League title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. And the squad ranked second in the nation in three-point field goals made and thirteenth in three-point field goal percentage wants to let everyone know that they are for real...
...curtain rose, I saw the first of many surprisingly exquisite sets. These painted wonders were the lone source of continuous joy in the production. Unfortunately, this first set heralded the arrival of a long sequence of scenes introducing an unnecessarily large cast of outlandish characters. After the third such scene, there were many more than Pirandello's "Six," and they were searching for a plot, not an author...
...process of the latter setback, though, there was another first to be seen. Harvard junior A.J. Mleczko became the top scorer in Harvard women's hockey history as she recorded the team's lone goal in the third period...
...Tuesday, perpetuating a dispute that has simmered for nearly a century. The rocky little islands (called Tok-do by Koreans and Takeshima by the Japanese) 150 miles from each the coasts of both countries are not significant in themselves, but recognized ownership of the islets -- now inhabited by a lone South Korean fisherman and a small South Korean military force -- hold the key to uncontested exploitation of the rich natural resources thought to surround the island. Both Japan and Korea claimed exclusive rights to the resources today but did not mention the islands in an effort to postpone a territorial...