Word: stalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn switched over to a stall in the waning minutes, which baited the Crimson into committing two personal fouls. Harvard had 23 personals on the evening and the Quakers shot 16-23 from the free-throw line...
Lynne Richardson scored from underneath moments later to give MIT a 39-34 lead. After a Radcliffe turnover, MIT began a semi-stall, but tough defense forced an off-balance shot by MIT and sophmore Cathy Fulton pulled down a strong rebound...
Last year, Princeton coach Bill Farley staged a twelve-minute stall between the 1000 and 200 in order to give Loughran time to rest. Loughran then went out and defeated Yntema at that distance. This year Farley instructed freshman Bruce Peterson to take a leisurely swim in the 1000 (he finished three minutes behind everyone else), but couldn't find a way to stall the meet any further...
Clarkson said that she had begun wearing her fur-coat to bed and, in an interview yesterday, Bossert described finding ice in a shower stall...
...left-wing academic community lacks teeth, and too many plot turns seem to occur in the last third of the novel, sim ply because something has to happen. One touch, however, indicates the book's essential virtue. Yuri Maximovich is trying to decide whether to defect. To stall for time, he must sell out and read the KGB's poem. He does so. But first, more artist than survivor, he takes the wretched thing apart and sharpens its images. It is not clear whether he understands that as a secret message it is now worth less...