Word: shooting
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...problem in the waning seconds—being forced to take low percentage shots. “I think that’s what hurt us,” Crimson coach John Tillman said. “We may have had more shots, but we didn’t shoot in good areas to make their goalie make some harder saves.” The late-game hole the Crimson dug for itself was in large part a product of a lack of consistent play. Despite flashes of brilliance in both the first and final quarters, Harvard was outscored...
...limbs - all the points exposed by the limits of Kevlar. What is more insane than running 200 meters through gunfire to reach the safety? But we did. I felt like Bruce Willis in Die Hard, somehow dancing between the bullets that showered from below and behind. The Taliban can shoot, but they can't aim. We were lucky. All of us were...
...want to put it on." Of course, everyone's suspicious, but then you offer them fifty bucks and most people will put their hands up. And then I'll say, "Would you still wear this sweater if you knew it belonged to Jeffrey Dahmer?" And the majority of hands shoot down. It's usually a very rapid response accompanied by nervous giggling. And you ask people why did they do that and they'll say, "It just seems wrong," and then they'll come up with all these post-hoc explanations. "Well, maybe there was some physical issue with Jeffrey...
...continued nonproliferation efforts, based on the reduction of current nuclear stockpiles, the prevention of further proliferation, and the securing of loose fissile material. In the days prior to the crisis, Obama had also deployed two AEGIS-capable destroyers to the East Sea—which can track and shoot down missiles if needed—in order to demonstrate American resolve. These actions demonstrated a combination of firm diplomacy and American military leadership...
...launch complicates that diplomacy. Tokyo in particular is furious at Pyongyang - it had earlier in the week threatened to shoot the missile down - and immediately after the launch asked for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to take place on Sunday. Both Tokyo and the South Korean government believe the rocket launch was an explicit violation of a 2006 U.N. resolution that insisted the North "not conduct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile." But North Korea insists it has the right to place communications satellites into orbit, and the U.S. military on Sunday confirmed...