Word: scared
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...excellent passing and team speed turned several Harvard turnovers into odd-man rushes, but Grumet-Morris stopped the majority of them, especially in the first period when he turned back 14 shots. That effort kept the Crimson in the game long enough to give Maine a scare...
Last Saturday in Montgomery, Ala., No. 44 Harvard put a major scare into fourth-ranked Notre Dame in the semifinal round of the Blue-Gray Invitational. The Crimson—which had already upset two top-35 teams in two days—eventually succumbed to the Fighting Irish, 4-3, but not before pushing Notre Dame to the final set of the deciding match in the epic semifinal...
...like. It sent a missile into Arafat's Ramallah compound, for the second time this year, coming within 70 feet of where the Palestinian leader was sitting with Miguel Moratinos, the European Union's Middle East envoy. Army officers say they are not trying to kill Arafat--just to scare him into curbing the uprising. For good measure, the Israelis also bombarded a building in Arafat's Gaza City compound...
...having a drink with a friend when the subject turned to terrorism and the shortcomings of the U.S. national security system. As an example, the friend, who works for the government, cited a scare that U.S. intelligence received soon after 9/11 when an agent reported that terrorists were planning to smuggle a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon into New York City. Over the next few days, I and other members of the Washington bureau worked the tip, discovering that the threat had indeed been taken seriously but was kept secret lest it cause panic. This week I returned to diplomacy...
...game, it became evident that the contest would go down to the wire. After Scott sent the partisan crowd of 5,137 into a frenzy with two more from the charity stripe one minute later, the Cardinal looked like it might be able to stave off the scare from the Crimson...