Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with goals by senior co-captain Megan Colligan and junior midfielder Sara Noonan, the Big Green deciphered Harvard's offensive scheme and returned the favor with two goals of their own. In the final 10 minutes, Dartmouth outscored the Crimson 5-2 and claimed a lead they would never relinquish...
Sunday was a different day in many ways for Harvard. With Irving on the mound, Harvard led 4-2 going into the bottom of the fifth. But then disaster struck, as Bear A. Ran Malick popped a three-run homer that gave Brown a lead it would never relinquish...
...into the minds of other people. A genius in a T shirt and Timberlands, Sydney has devised this technology herself, but she cannot control the environments she enters. As a result, she often finds herself in peril. Neverthe-less, she is unable to stay in the real world and relinquish virtual-reality voyaging. "You give it up, and you'll be free," says her mentor. "I'm free when I'm in there," Sydney blankly responds...
...Kachigian points out, "having just raised $26 million for the Governor's race, can he really go back to the well all over again and say, 'Oh, now I have to raise more money to run for President'?" Most important, powerful Republicans in Sacramento are pressuring Wilson not to relinquish the governorship to the capable but liberal Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Gray Davis. Wilson, however, has a history of overcoming tactical ob-stacles with the grit of a Marine platoon leader showing recruits how to scale a roped wall, which he once did. In 28 years of elective politics, Wilson...
...Harvard would acquire a lead it would not relinquish just two minutes later while killing off a St. Lawrence power play. McLaughlin fired a slap shot from nearly center ice that banged off a post and past stunned Saint goalie Jon Bracco...