Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...either got a deranged Barney episode or The New Pornographers’ “Mutiny, I Promise You” video. This is your typical indie pop outfit (think Tilly and the Wall) video: hyper-chromatic garb and lighting, bouncy vocals, DIY sets and props, and relentless, exaggerated theatricality. The band members begin in an overcrowded cardboard box doing “cool” things like reading Borges and taking Polaroid shots of each other. A girl with two long braids (you’ll recognize her as Mel from “Flight of the Conchords?...
...knew this was a big game for us,” sophomore forward Katherine Sheeleigh said. “We came in the night before the game, we knew we had to bring it, [and] we brought it for all 90 minutes. We were just relentless.”Crimson coach Ray Leone was happy with his team’s effort.“[Today was] an emotional game,” he said. “Obviously when you’re playing Yale, it’s the biggest game you can imagine, [and] we brought...
...style to the pool, drawing on 11 different scorers and a pair of hat tricks to keep Harvard at bay. Although senior co-captain Jay Connolly and junior Nikhil Balaraman played well in goal, notching ten and six saves respectively in one half of action each, the Lions proved relentless, taking a 6-0 lead after one frame and a 13-1 advantage into the locker room at halftime.“That’s what can happen when you come out flat against a team that good,” Connolly explained.But, while Harvard was aware...
...Those relentless credit-card offers left in your mailbox dropped 17% in the second quarter compared with last year, according to mail tracker Synovate. Who's being ignored? The less affluent: 52% of households with income below $50,000 have gotten an offer this year vs. 66% last year. Even if you already have plenty of cards, you're not immune. Card companies are taking a hard look at customers' credit profiles, especially in the areas with the most house-price deterioration. American Express typically cuts the credit limit on about 4% of its cards each year. That figure...
...last minute two-point conversion attempt that would have tied the game if successful.In Ithaca, Cornell fans witnessed an upset of equal proportions by their Big Red. Embarrassed after being smacked around by Yale in a 51-12 drubbing last season, Cornell’s defense unleashed a relentless attack that left five sacks worth of bruises on the Bulldog quarterbacks’ bodies and pride and stumped the great Mike McLeod, Yale’s juggernaut of a running back. The result was a 17-14 Big Red win and a dumbfounded look on the face...