Word: slow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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HANOVER, N.H.—When the Crimson offense sputtered in the first quarter, no one seemed concerned. Yes, 20th-ranked Harvard was playing Ivy cellar-dweller Dartmouth, but throughout the season the Crimson’s powerful offense has been typically slow to get going. Coming into Saturday’s game, Harvard was scoring an average of only 5.3 points in the first quarter...
...start completed 19 of 37 passes for 162 yards and a touchdown. “I just tried to get to the line...and we tried to get up on the ball as fast as we could and clock it, but I guess we were just a second too slow...
Having found kindred spirits and armed with a do-it-yourself can-do ethos, the first-year quintet set about practicing and writing songs. But progress was initially slow...
...moments—when some random horrific element comes from nowhere—that make the first act of The Grudge, Hollywood’s latest attempt at remaking a foreign blockbuster, extremely enjoyable. Yet tension gives way to torpor as the first act crawls to a close: the slow reserved pace that initially generates blood-curdling moments soon begins to retard the motion of the film. Even the highly anticipated surprise ending becomes an “Oh, okay” moment instead of a “Wow, no way, that’s his father...
...reality, I think I am a fan of Boston simply because I’m a fan of baseball. Even as the Red Sox—a team built around slow sluggers that can’t bunt—eschew many of the most elegant aspects of the game, they are still today’s single best symbol of the national pastime...