Word: showdown
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Suchde had an impressive tournament and did his best to make it an all-Harvard final, but the best player in squash proved to be too much, and Suchde dropped the match in three games 9-7, 9-3, 9-2, setting up the El-Halaby-Broadbent showdown...
...that made that epic film so captivating. Nor was it Aragorn’s rousing rhetoric on the “two Middle-earths.” No, it was the struggle between good and evil and the triumph over tyranny that captured our hearts (and our cash). A showdown over the future of American democracy would be equally stirring...
...minutes after the conclusion of Friday night’s showdown between the Harvard women’s hockey team and St. Lawrence, Crimson coach Katey Stone stood gripping a cup of blue Powerade and grinning like a proud parent...
...demoralizing to play in front of home crowds of 213 and 321, like the Crimson did against Rider and Maine at Lavietes earlier this season. It probably stings a bit to play in front of a crowd of 892 for an Ivy League showdown with Cornell, when you know that a large fraction of those fans have come the whole way from Ithaca to support their...
...Kerry's advisers say they aren't worried their candidate will be mauled in the showdown. "The court has decided one thing, and Kerry has said he disagrees," says a senior Kerry adviser. Every time the Republicans bring up the issue, they give Kerry "the opportunity to highlight that his view isn't the traditional Massachusetts-liberal view." Kerry himself snapped last week, "I have the same position that Vice President Dick Cheney has. [The Republicans] ought to talk to Dick Cheney ... before they start playing games with this. And we'll find out just how political and how craven...