Word: scrum
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...UMass tallied two more goals before the end of the half. On the first, attacker Tim Balise drove from the sideline directly towards the side of the net. He beat his defender to the crease and converted on a diving shot. The other goal came on a scrum in front of the net. As Rory Pedrick was driving towards the crease, the ball was poked out of his stick and into the air. Pike was unaware as the ball bounced precariously near the goal line. Two defenders converged on the ball, but in an attempt to secure the ground ball...
...every American. No one knows how the conflict will end, just yet, or who the winners and losers will be. But if Thursday's Health Care Reform summit at the White House is any indication, there is no doubt who will be standing at the middle of the scrum: The nation's self-anointed Mediator-in-Chief, President Barack Obama...
Italians are normally not good at waiting in line. During the weekly trip to the bank or post office it helps to have sharp elbows and a sense of entitlement. Getting on a bus or train can be more like packing down in a rugby scrum. But when those big moments in life arrive - the next step in your career, a business idea to launch, moving out of your parent's home - Italy is afflicted by a troubling surplus of patience...
...stories too. In The Prince's Waitress Wife, Holly encounters the word hooker and exclaims to the prince, "I can't believe they named a rugby position after a prostitute!" She soon discerns that it refers to the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with his foot...
...October, Laura Zuniga, athletic and 5 feet 7 inches tall, posed sleekly for the paparazzi. She wore an alluring pink dress and, more importantly, the coveted crown of Miss Hispanic America. Just before Christmas, she again stood before a scrum of Mexican photographers, this time holding her head low and wearing a pair of handcuffs while police showed the 9-mm pistols, semiautomatic rifles and $53,000 in cash she was allegedly caught with. Her problems only deepened on Friday, when a judge ordered her and a man described as her boyfriend, along with six others found with the stash...