Word: shut
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...hockey team, 5-1. Despite having lost three of its last four games, Dartmouth (5-7-0, 5-5-0 ECAC) looked like the more dominant team. Playing physically and outhustling the Crimson (9-5-1, 7-5-0), the Big Green built up a large lead and successfully shut down Harvard’s offense. “If you don’t start off well, it’s really hard to come out [of that hole],” Crimson captain Peter Hafner said. “They basically took it to us the whole game...
...Quinnipiac and Cornell were followed by a 4-0-1 run. Two of those wins and the tie came against top-15 opponents. And then in an early-December stretch of three games in five days, Harvard lost to conference whipping boy Yale, only to down Quinnipiac and shut out then-No. 9 New Hampshire. But the Crimson won’t play again until it travels for a pair of contests against the No. 9 University of North Dakota on Dec. 29-30. So now, after an undoubtedly unpleasant Friday-night bus ride back from snowy Hanover, Harvard...
...Night and Good Luck Essayist Pamela Paul discussed the ongoing debate over the best way to get a baby to sleep [Nov. 28]. My wife and I resorted to Dr. Richard Ferber's "cry it out" technique with our first son so that we could get some well-deserved shut-eye. Our boy was gifted with an operatic set of lungs. On the second or third night, we were watching the clock and gnashing our teeth at our baby's megadecibel wails. Finally we dashed into his room to comfort him and found that one of his legs had become...
BRING IT ON 2 hours until showtime The FM dance team sat in a tight circle. Around them, teams danced and hummed, exploding out of twirls and high kicking across the church’s make-shift stage. “Shut your eyes, and visualize,” said Fee. Holding hands with eyes closed, the FM team imagined themselves dancing through their entire routine. Their bodies remained perfectly still; only their large smiles and rapidly moving eyeballs revealed their concentration. Everyone opened their eyes at the same time, smiling...
...nothing could have prepared them for the shock they experienced last week when the world's largest producer of surfboard materials abruptly hung up its board. Without any advance warning, the Clark Foam factory-whose polyurethane foam ?blanks? fill more than 75 percent of all surfboards on the planet-shut its doors after 44 years in business, sending the industry into a market-driven panic. Within seconds, surfboard prices around the country skyrocketed...