Word: pinned
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Harvard went on to win the last three matches of the day, with Lee, O’Donnell, and Jones all pulling out victories. O’Donnell’s victory was particularly impressive since he recorded a full two-second pin on Army’s Ron Schroeder...
...Guys really stepped it up,” said Jantzen. “Pat O’Donnell helped the team a lot with his full pin...
...unlikable stereotypes who were already well-parodied cliches two decades ago. There's Roger, the materialistic go-getter (Eddie Shin); there's Tuesday, a snarly punk with a spiked hairdo (Chyler Leigh) who delivers lines--"So I'm punk. Deal with it"--that an actual punk would sooner safety pin her brain than utter. Occasionally, '80s hints that it wants to be subtler and smarter than it is; it acknowledges, for instance, that by 1984 Tuesday's look is years out of date, as if the writers couldn't resist the predictable hair joke but felt a little embarrassed about...
...says ordered the shredding of Enron documents at the giant accounting firm's Houston office, took the Fifth in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee (but not before briefing the panel's investigators behind closed doors). Then Duncan's superiors appeared before the committee and tried to pin all the blame on Duncan rather than take responsibility for a "document retention policy" that seemed to encourage shredding. Republicans got more than twice as much campaign cash from Enron employees as Democrats did in 2000--$1.7 million compared with $683,000--which may be one reason the House panel...
...failing public school system. But Governor Gray Davis devoted much of his State of the State address last week to more life-and-death matters. "All four hijacked planes were bound for California," said Davis, dressed in a blue shirt, a red tie and an American-flag lapel pin. "More than 100 fellow Californians paid the ultimate price for our freedom." In memory of those who died on Sept. 11--"to build a future worthy of their sacrifice"--he announced legislation designed to terrorproof the state. Local police, he said, need the same broad wiretapping authority the feds now enjoy...