Word: shocker
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...Even for New Orleans, where residents have pretty much come to accept violent crime as an inevitable part of life, Saturday's news was a shocker: five males, all in their teens, shot to death on a Central City street just before dawn. After two days of investigating, police still had no suspects in the killings and remained tight-lipped about possible motives. A ballistics test will take a week or more to determine whether more than one shooter was involved, according to police. The New Orleans Times-Picayune, after reviewing court records, said one victim, 19, was awaiting...
Even for New Orleans, where residents have pretty much come to accept violent crime as an inevitable part of life, Saturday's news was a shocker: Five males, all in their teens, shot to death on a Central City street just before dawn, the apparent targets of a retaliatory strike by rivals...
...second. “I think part of our problem [was] that we were fixing too much on Princeton...we see them a lot and we tend to fixate on them a little bit,” junior Rachel Orler said. “IRAs was kind of a shocker for us because we’d always beaten Georgetown in the past.” “It was disappointing to have a third-place finish to cap it off, but there were definitely some high points to the season,” senior Sarah Bates added. Despite...
...with them. “This year, Georgetown has risen up as a powerful crew, and we’ve had some tight races with them as well, ending with a loss to them at the IRAs.” “Actually, IRAs was kind of a shocker for us because we’d always beatenGeorgetown in the past,” junior Rachel Orler said. Wisconsin started in a worse position than the Black and White when the Badgers finished third in the opening heat and had to go through another qualifying round—which...
...much for streaks. It took half a decade, but the Harvard varsity heavyweights finally had a bad day. And after five years of perfection, the Crimson came up five tenths of a second short. Harvard dropped its season opener in a shocker at Brown on Saturday, losing by one seat in the furious sprint to the finish. It marked the first time since an April 2001 loss to Princeton that Harvard has surrendered a dual race. The win gave No. 7 Brown its first Stein Cup victory since 2000 and sent the No. 3 Crimson to an unfamiliar...