Word: southerning
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...having a worthy adversary during its regular season, Harvard was unsurprisingly shell shocked when it traveled to southern California to play UCLA in the second round of the NCAAs...
...field, the team was simply overwhelmed at the ease in which UCLA eviscerated its vaunted attack. Harvard hadn’t played an opponent of UCLA’s caliber and thus hadn’t needed to change its playing style until the sun set in southern Cal and the Crimson’s 2006 season...
...program was dropped in 2001. Most years since, the ripening hashish crops are destroyed shortly before the harvest by drug police protected by hundreds of Lebanese troops. But this year, the Lebanese army's manpower was stretched to the limit with security commitments in Beirut, along the southern border with Israel, the eastern border with Syria and in the north of the country where troops fought a bloody three-month battle against Islamist militants during the summer hashish growing season. Furthermore, the hashish farmers threatened to burn down the houses of local tractor owners who are hired each year...
...southern section of Virunga where the gorillas reside is strategically important to the rebels; the area was also attacked in January, when rebels allegedly killed then ate two of the silverbacks - a shocking act since conservationists say that mountain gorillas are usually not eaten. A total of 10 gorillas are known to have been killed this year, including a female gorilla killed execution-style. Two gorillas are still missing...
...roadside bomb blast that killed Australian soldier David Pearce in southern Afghanistan on Oct. 8 reflects a new turn in the tactics of Taliban fighters bent on recapturing the country. Regularly bested by Coalition forces in battle, the Taliban are making increasingly effective use of improvised explosive devices - and of intimidation...