Word: mismatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tonight's contest pretty much boils down to a mismatch between a squad that will most likely be fighting for the ECAC title and one that will have to struggle to keep above water. The only way that Nortbeastern can win is if Harvard allows it to. It has happened before, but don't bet on its happening tonight...
With all the regulars joining in the party. Harvard jumped out to a crushing 35-9 advantage over the first 12 minutes of the mismatch and then played out the string...
...house sits like a jester in a court of sedate plutocrats. Its chimney is rakishly out of plumb. The roof shingles are a motley mismatch. An attached garage is nothing but a skeleton of stone pillars, and the garden is dominated by a magnificent stand of ragweed. The house shows not its facade but its robust posterior to Heathcote Road, one of the best addresses in New York's pleasant suburban town of Scarsdale...
...every eight marriages in the U.S. is a potentially dangerous mismatch, biochemically speaking. In these 200,000 or more marriages a year, the wife lacks the Rh factor present in most blood and is Rh-negative; the husband has the factor and is Rh-positive. The difference does not usually affect the couple's first baby. But if the baby is Rh-positive, there is a progressively increasing chance of trouble in later pregnancies. In such cases, the Rh-negative mother develops an immunity to future Rh-positive babies and may send enough damaging antibodies into the developing child...
...when it came to cross the finish line, there were the Providence runners in front, misdirections and all. "It set a historical precedent," McCurdy quipped. "Those guys are so damned good that they ran all the way to Boston, came back, and won anyway. It was sort of a mismatch." You might say that...