Word: shook
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Streaking behind the Brown defense, Cavanagh shook his own defender leaving him 2-1 with Pettit and his hanger-on. But rather than take his own open shot, the Crimson playmaker beamed a pass through the narrowest of seams, between Danis and his lone defender. And onto Pettit’s tape. 3-1 Harvard...
When Moreno reached the house at around 4 a.m., Aristide answered the door, a few packed bags at his side. They shook hands. Then Moreno asked if he knew why he was there. "Of course," Aristide answered...
...poke fun. Usually, it’s a bit of both. So when she heard that a group of disgruntled parents were disbanding Girl Scout troops (and boycotting their cookies) in Crawford, Texas—yes, home to President Bush’s beloved ranch—Dartboard only shook her head, and sighed. She could already hear her friends taunting: “Only in Texas...
...whether individually felt, communally experienced or both—it was the near death of my best childhood friend that dealt the most crushing blow. The slow, natural dissolution of our friendship over the years had been a great loss, but her accident and consequent medical trauma truly shook me to my core because it showed me how much, and for how long, I’d missed...
...eight days last December, I worked as an assistant on a United Service Organizations tour of Kuwait and Iraq. I shook thousands of hands, heard hundreds of stories and saw things that I have never seen before and will never see again. I held a suicide bomber’s belt; I met a man whose face was burnt and eyes were blinded by shrapnel; I dined in a tyrant’s water palace; I even detonated a bomb (albeit a small...