Word: slap
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...Nice job by defender Cori Bassett, who repels a BU fast break by staying in front of Terriers forward Jillian Kirchner and blocking a hard slap shot...
...backers of candidates eliminated in the first stage would vote to defeat Martinon in the second, Le Figaro contended, meant "Sarkozy has hardly any choice but to pull Martinon" from the race. The risk of not doing so, the paper quoted a presidential advisor explaining, was taking a humiliating "slap in the face." Mindful of that peril, Neuilly's UMP brass teamed up with Jean Sarkozy on Sunday to announce they were dumping Martinon to launch a rival campaign - doubtless with the president's blessing. On Monday morning, Martinon called it quits in Neuilly, but did say Sarkozy had rejected...
...captain Mike Taylor said. “But some untimely penalties, just missed defensive coverage, kind of hurt us tonight.”Senior forward Alex Meintel’s second period goal at 14:14 tied the score at 1-1 after Meintel deflected a slap-shot from junior Jimmy Fraser past Brown goalie Dan Rosen. The score was Meintel’s third goal and Fraser’s fifth assist of the season. The Crimson would get no closer, as the Bears quickly regained the momentum due to Harvard’s erratic puck control...
...However, Barroso insisted that the E.U.'s ultimate goal was not to slap on trade sanctions, but to secure a worldwide agreement on cutting emissions. "This is about global warming, global climate change, not only climate change in Europe. We've got to put our proposals in such a way that we bring others with us," he said. The proposals, he said, would also give Europe more energy security and make it less dependent for supplies "on regimes that are not our friends...
...Middle East and political division, and we chose a speaker to talk to us about children’s books,” Marco P. Basile ’08 said in an interview in the Quincy House Dining Hall. “It’s a slap in the face to what the University stands for. We should hear about the challenges facing the world...