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...last 30 seconds of [the Yale] game defined our balls-out attitude,” Kane said. “It was a great feeling to rub it in their faces. After last season, we vowed never to let [the dancing] happen again...
...football, there are plays that make you rub your eyes in astonishment. Plays like an off-balance one-handed catch, a pulverizing hit, or an impossible evasion of a would-be tackler—the kind of plays that make you gasp, “Did you see that...
...CUTTING Cutters first remove unwanted pieces of the stone, then rub two diamonds together to shape a main stone...
...results can be catastrophic. Hospital infections contribute to the deaths of nearly 90,000 patients in the U.S. each year and add about $4.5 billion to medical costs. And yet the solution can be as simple as a bar of medicated soap or a disinfectant alcohol rub. "Improved hand washing can reduce rates of infection as much as a third," says Elaine Larson, an expert on health-care hygiene at the Columbia University School of Nursing. Even wearing latex gloves isn't necessarily a good substitute, since taking them off improperly can lead to recontamination...
...Usher endless hordes of tourists in front of a decrepit old statue and glibly encourage them to rub its urine-encrusted toe for good luck...