Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...knew we had to give a hundred percent the whole way,” Mikula said. “I think the fourth quarter we had a lapse in energy. That three-goal run really did us in.” Harvard will have a chance to redeem itself tomorrow at Holy Cross, which has lost its first four games of the season. “To see positive results we are going to need to play four full quarters,” Mikula said. “We need to bounce back and prove ourselves in the lacrosse community...
...front, Gretzky and Quinn favored veterans over high-scoring youth such as Crosby and Eric Staal. Prototype NHL power forward Todd Bertuzzi, who'd hoped to redeem himself at this tournament for breaking the neck of Colorado forward Steve Moore in 2004, hardly seemed a factor. Moore filed a multi-million dollar civil suit against Bertuzzi at the onset of the tournament. And Quinn lacked faith in the younger players he did carry, notably remarking how Columbus forward Rick Nash seemed "in awe" of the situation. "Nobody could make me feel worse than I feel right now," Quinn said, referring...
...more subtle looks of regret masked behind public smiles, betraying hints of the bittersweet emotions of the moment. “[We feel] a lot of disappointment for our teammates,” Harvard senior Jennifer Raimondi said this weekend. “We feel that, but they will redeem themselves when they play in the bronze medal game.” That they did. Despite being relegated to third-place match, the Americans played inspired hockey on Monday, surging to a 4-0 shutout win over Finland, thanks in no small part to Chu. The former Harvard tri-captain...
Thus, it’s a simple hop, skip, and jump for me to conceive of myself as the last of the Jedi, brought here by destiny to redeem my father, who so loathed this place. Or perhaps the heir to the Corleone empire, finally accepting my birthright in a small piece of land that my ancestors conquered in the face of ethnic hatred...
...particularly lost in your eyes, or particularly worried about our mutually destructive qualities. It’s because I know what happened to the last generation here. I walk the streets and see the ghosts of their passions and failures, and know that I must redeem this land and be redeemed by it. You and I are bound up in an irrational history that neither of us can understand, and I want you to know how I think about my legacy...