Word: nit
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...conservator Julie A. Buck and her team of nit-picky film buffs occupy one of the Arsenal’s many commercial real estate sites. Their mission is to maintain the 20,000 reels of film in the Harvard Film Archive’s collection...
...lost 70-57 to Penn and fell three games behind the Quake Show in the loss column. With no Ivy League tournament, the Crimson (12-13, 7-5 Ivy) has basically been playing out the string of games ever since, having lost virtually all hope of even an NIT...
...that game, a gaggle of media members assailed coach Joe Scott in a corner of Lavietes Pavilion. To the embattled first-year coach, those reporters must have been far too reminiscent of vultures slowly circling his head. A tired looking Scott, already having to face questions about a potential NIT bid, could only stare blankly at the tape recorders and repeat over and over that his team was “not doing the little things...
...been seen since 1979—the last time the Tigers started league play with a 1-4 record. Once a member of the semi-exclusive “Others Receiving Votes” club in the AP top 25, Princeton is now fearing for its NIT life...
Three decades or so after his injury, Howie lives in his boyhood home in a Midwestern town that could be Cleveland, Ohio. With both his parents dead, he has a makeshift family of housemates that includes Nit and Nat, affable slacker lunkheads, and Laurel Cao, a level-headed, sexy Vietnamese American from Texas who makes gourmet soups for sale to local shops. He also has a steady, undemanding job doing maintenance and yard work for a local convent. What he does not have is any particular hope for the future...