Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attackman Bill Tennis served up his fifth tally of the afternoon by blasting the winning goal past a much-disgusted Big Green net minder with a scant three seconds remaining in the sudden death overtime period...
Lyman jacked up the cadence and the Crimson edged out the Scarlet Knights in the final ten stroke by the scant margin of three-tenths of a second...
Before dawn, the fuel tanker Marias had appeared out of nowhere, like a floating filling station, and the 80,000-ton carrier Forrestal danced into place alongside. The two ships cruised ahead, a scant 140 ft. apart, while the carrier took on engine and jet fuel from two suspended umbilical lines. Meanwhile, three destroyers with the law-firm-sounding names of Sampson, Barry and Miller took turns on the tanker's far side...
Last year the Crimson edged out the highly touted Tigers by a scant one and a half seconds in the Goldthwait Cup. But Princeton's chance to redeem itself and show Harvard, and whoever else was watching, that they were indeed tops in the East crumpled as the Tigers crawled across the finish line a very dead last in the Sprints Grande Finale...
...play of Bill MacKenzie early in the first quarter helped get the Crimson offense untracked and break a 1-1 deadlock. Six minutes into the period, Bruce Bruckmann swept in from midfield and turned a MacKenzie pass into Harvard's second goal. A scant 15 seconds later. MacKenzie found an opening and whistled a quick score past perplexed MIT netminder Singer...