Word: nosedives
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“What we saw tonight was an experienced, hard-nosed, senior-driven team on Senior Night at home playing for the championship of the Ivy League,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “Unfortunately, we were in the way.”
But alas, those who foretold an ECAC in which those carmine cousins nosed one another for the title each year—the same way Michigan and Michigan State have engaged in a two-way struggle for CCHA hegemony for most of the last two decades—are now...
Junior Lindsey Wilkins, the intercollegiate No. 8, had a hard-nosed, physical contest at No. 2, putting down intercollegiate No. 16 Ali Pearson 9-3, 9-2, 9-2, while freshmen intercollegiate No. 14 Audrey Duboc and No. 32 Lydia Williams playing at No. 3 and 4, respectively, won each...
CIA Chief George Tenet was certain David Kay was the best bloodhound to set loose in Iraq last summer to sniff for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Tenet reasoned that if anyone could find the stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological arms on which the Bush Administration had predicated its...
Eyre nosed ahead at 6-5, but Duboc took two points to give herself the lead. Eyre recovered to tie it at seven, but Duboc took two in a row to take the second game 9-7.