Word: slotted
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...other peacetime locale are the metaphors and ironies so impossibly juicy, so ripe for the plucking. And there are always new crops of redolent, suggestive Vegas facts, of which any several -- for instance: the Mirage has a $500-a-pull slot-machine salon; the lung-cancer death rate here is the second highest in the country; the suicide rate and cellular-phone usage are the highest -- constitute a vivid, up-to-date sketch of the place...
...local predilection for smarmy euphemism. From Wayne Newton on down, every man in Vegas calls every woman a lady. One of the local abortion clinics is called A Lady's Needs. Signs all over McCarran Airport declare it a nonsmoking building, yet just as noticeable as the banks of slot machines is the reek of old cigarettes. It strikes almost no one as ironic that the patron of the M.B. Dalitz Religious School is the late Moe Dalitz, the celebrated gangster...
...clock wound down, with Harvard clinging to its one goal lead and facing 1:38 of a penalty kill (1:09 of which was 5-on-3) to end the game. Mike Latendersse, already with two goals on the night, failed to collect an easy centering pass in the slot. He had room to gun past Harvard's Tripp Tracy on the short side, but the puck slid under his blade to the near corner...
...only goal of the first period came on a Duluth power play; Rusty Fitzgerald fed senior captain Chris Marinucci in a wide-open slot, who dumped the puck under Tracy with only 14 seconds to play in the period...
Only one goal in the second--it too a direct result of poor Harvard play in its own end. A defensive turnover put the puck right on Brad Federenko's stick; he drove through the slot and muscled past Tracy 4:36 into the period, and although the Crimson outshot UMD 14-6, the better chances continued to fall for the Bulldogs...