Word: skated
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...sure. The Harvard women’s hockey team takes the ice for its first practice in mid-October, plays its first game before Halloween, and doesn’t finish until some time in March. All told, depending on its luck in the post-season, the squad will skate in between 29 and 37 contests. It will log countless miles on the road—venturing to such diverse locales as Duluth, Minn. and Canton, N.Y.—and shifts on the rink. Coach Katey Stone’s Crimson skaters will cross and re-cross the blue...
...game if we want to continue to strive for the NCAA tournament [and the] ECAC championship.” The pivot’s goal put the Crimson on top 1-0 in the first period. After dropping the puck to linemate Dan Murphy, Du skated towards the goal and easily stuffed the rebound of Murphy’s shot past a sprawled-out Bud Fisher, the Quinnipiac goaltender, at 8:49. Du added his second point of the night with Harvard on the power play in the second period. Taking the puck at the left boards...
Taking the puck at the left boards, Du fed a wide-open Maki down low, allowing the winger to skate in on goal uncontested and send a shot high past Fisher’s blocker...
...make out a man with a mullet initiating a round of appreciative audience applause.“Now that’s what I like,” Bob teases, unaware that “Edward” was MVP of the NCAA tournament a year ago and would skate in the Olympics just two years hence. “A young man who has really given his future some thought. He has, this one, and he knows it’s hopeless.”* * *Donato had sworn to himself that if he ever made it to Contestants?...
...room is sci-fi white, from the rectangular tables to the window blinds. The wait staff is all business (as is most of the clientele). The food, accelerating in flavor and intensity through a meal, seems conjured in Adri's lab: breaded fois custard cream with apricot jam, baked skate with clam aioli, smoked beef with "ancient mustard" foam. In cooking as in science, not all lab experiments succeed: an unappealing appetizer of Iberian porkpie with truffled duck liver consisted mostly of morsels of fat. But considering the rich and varied fare dished out, the fact that we didn...