Word: nails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the next four minutes, neither the Crimson nor the Eagles were able to take advantage of the other's offensive impotence to nail down the win. So when B.C. hoopsters Jane Haubrich and Kerry Murphy each looped in a bucket with less than a minute to go--putting their team in the lead, 42-38--the Crimson did not have enough time to dump in two tying baskets. Freshman forward Wendy Joseph pocketed a two-pointer with nine seconds remaining, but Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder had depleted her allocated timeouts for the game, and the Eagles simply...
...Almanac's satires nail a broad range of fictitious characters that represent much of what is "establishment" in America. Underlying many of the scenarios that Baker concocts is a fundamental cynicism toward the nation's more materialistic values and the routines they create. He observes...
...Sunday Times column by TV Critic Russell Davies. That was largely an act of existential futility, like trying to hide from a blizzard inside a freezer. Davies wrote that the premiere Tonight show "had catastrophically equated our national tastes with those of Benny Hill," then proceeded to nail Carson's guests, his audience, his tailoring and "a marmoset [that] peed endearingly on Johnny's head and an aardvark [that] shat in a sandbox." Nevertheless, Davies concluded his well-turned roast with an exemplary demonstration of fair play: "Against the run of all this evidence, I insist that Carson...
...last game--against Pennsylvania--Joseph was a bright spot coming off the bench to help Harvard nail down its only win of the season. Against Holy Cross, she again began the game on the bench, but once Joseph reached the floor, she was undeniably the best Crimson cager in the Hart Recreation Center, causing Kleinfelder to say after the game that Joseph had earned a spot among the starting five...
Oversized racket sales -- with prices ranging from $100-300 -- grew by 60 per cent last year. The racquets have put the snowshoe on the other foot, prompting Prince users to jeer outdated traditionalist and mock the mini-racquet antiques. What's that for. . . Stir your martinis? Swat mosquitos? Nail down the lines...