Word: spectacularness
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...With its hopes of Ivy perfection crushed, Harvard came out loose and ready to play in the second game. Whitton, for the second time that week, homered to start off a game. That would be all the scoring Suzanne Guy would need on the day. She pitched a spectacular three-hit shutout in which just a few balls ever left the infield. Abeles--broken wrist and all--was perfect in the field with seven assists...
...Trailing 14-0 in the fourth quarter, with its offense completely ineffective, and Menick sidelined with a sprained MCL, the game appeared lost for Harvard. But a Kacyvenski interception set up Harvard's first touchdown of the game, and a spectacular 77-yard punt return by Patterson tied the game for the Crimson. After the Harvard defense forced the fourth Penn turnover of the game, a Mike Giampaolo field goal put the Crimson up 17-14 with 5:47 remaining...
...stiff interest-rate hike by the Federal Reserve's little known Federal Open Market Committee was a no-brainer, given the still sizzling growth of the U.S. economy. But in another sense, the panel's increase in the so-called federal-funds rate from 6% to 6.5% marked a spectacular wager on your future, with your money, by 10 unelected and largely unknown officials operating behind closed doors. By raising the rate that underpins most other borrowing costs to its highest level in nine years, the committee is hoping--make that praying--to cool the economy and forestall ruinous inflation...
Sprewell could have been assessed a technical foul for celebrating prematurely by tossing the ball. What an awful way that would have been to end a spectacular series--a technical free throw. I'm glad that the officials were able to exercise some discretion--although the way things were going, it's not like Miami would have hit the free throw anyway...
...film is said to boast computer effects and shocks in the tradition of his earlier films Forrest Gump and the dubious Death Becomes Her. But even though Internet surfers are buzzing with conspiracy theories of their own about the film's plotline, test screenings have been less than spectacular...