Word: nailing
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...What promised to be a nail-biting finish turned into a laugher as Harvard capitalized on a depleted Dartmouth bullpen and some shoddy infield defense to plate 14 runners over the final two innings and sap the drama out of the afternoon’s decisive second game...
...felt fantastic. The [second varsity] has been having rows of a superior quality,” Reid said. “And you can only credit the guys behind you for having the patience and the intuition to move it along like that.”After a disappointing nail-biter at Navy a week ago, the Crimson second varsity once again asserted itself in the second 1,000 meters. Harvard added yet more to its lead, establishing an open-water advantage by 1250 meters down. And the Crimson made it clear that any race on Saturday would...
...York Times sweetheart Maureen Dowd bemoans this apparent lack of commitment to the feminist cause among so many modern ladies. Increasingly, Dowd fears, women are willing to opt out of careers to be professional mommies, forgoing jobs for juice boxes. These mothers are blind to the tooth-and-nail fights of the generations before them—the fights to have jobs and to hold professional degrees. This recent trend, she implies, is a horror...
...hockey arena wearing some clothes. Instead of popping into a Dinosaurs lecture where they could see all these idiots looking terrible for free, they decided to pay to see them looking slightly better and grinding with each other in some sort of massive orgy of chachery. The real nail in the coffin (if only it were a real coffin!) is that by coinciding with pre-frosh weekend, Eleganza inculcates the next generation with the notion that people will like them if they dress like they’re going clubbing in Berlin. Truth be told, we’ve never...
...fading future of Italy's young" [April 10]: My compliments on a well-written article. I can say with conviction that Guia Soncini, the columnist for a women's magazine quoted in your story, hit the nail on the head when she said the youth of Italy "are comfortable with how things are." As a Filipino immigrant in Rome, I can only agree. The reluctance of young Italians to take risks is still something of a marvel to me. I work for a family whose 36-year-old son doesn't seem to want to move out of the house...