Word: slipping
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...squad by tallying three goals in just the first two minutes of action. Harvard eventually got going and held the Seahawks to three goals over the next 29 minutes. In the fourth quarter, freshman Kathryn Bilder intercepted a Wagner pass, went the length of the pool, and managed to slip in a goal with two Seahawk defenders closing in on her. Bilder’s goal brought the Crimson within two, but Harvard did not score again, as Wagner escaped with the win. “Our 6-on-5 was a disaster against Wagner,” Farrar said...
...parsimony? U.S. officials argue that resettling Iraqis will accelerate the country's brain drain. Admitting large numbers of Arabs also raises anxieties among some Americans that terrorists could slip in--even though refugees are among the most exhaustively screened migrants. But Bush Administration critics say the biggest reason Washington has been slow to act is that doing so would be an admission of failure in Iraq. Says Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: "If the U.S. government were to do an active resettlement regime for Iraqi refugees...
...stiff-upper-lip Brit, unflappable in the face of crisis, but there's not a hint of condescension or satire. Yes, the young commander of the company, the competent, hard-drinking Stanhope (Hugh Dancy, the Brit heartthrob who's a standout in a cast of mostly Americans), lets slip a few bitterly sarcastic words about the general who has ordered the unnecessary raid. But no antiwar playwright could have written the delicate scene in which Stanhope tries to buck up, without shaming, a cowardly officer who is faking illness to avoid battle: "Supposing the worst happened--supposing we were knocked...
ALAN GREENSPAN, former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, during a business conference in Hong Kong, warning that the American economy could slip into recession by the end of the year...
...offer was a bumbling Bush, a cadaverous Kerry, and a deranged Dean, he is exactly what our citizens are starving for. More than ever, the American public needs its messiah, and Barack, blessed with the chance to project himself as new, green, and uncorrupted, has been clever enough to slip easily into the role of savior...