Word: stave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points in the first half of Saturday night's basketball game at the IAB, the Crimson battled back to within two points, 63-65, with seven minutes remaining in the contest before Mike Davis, the Redmen's leading scorer and rebounder, scored Cornell's next six points to stave off the Crimson's rally...
...HAVEN, Conn.--Co-captain Glenn Fine sank four crucial free throws in the last 12 seconds of the Harvard-Yale basketball game to stave off a tremendous comeback attempt by the Elis and preserve the Crimson basketball team's second consecutive one-point victory in two nights, 80-79, here at the Payne-Whitney...
From no more than 20 feet away, Mikita sizes up the empty net, a gaping invitation. He slides the puck ever so gently goalwards, as his teammates prepared to celebrate and the Blueshirts prayed for a miracle to stave off elimination...
...mayor's foes did not buy the package, however. All day Friday, bankers, businessmen, economic consultants, the council and the mayor held meetings to try to find a compromise that would stave off default. As failure seemed imminent, Forbes offered a soothing prediction: "Come Saturday morning, the sun is going to shine, or it is going to snow." But as the city's credit rating plummets and outright bankruptcy looms, drastic cutbacks in all city services seem inevitable. Or, as Kucinich so aptly put it when a midnight deadline passed: "There will be six months of chaos for this...
...coin is Norwegian, he said, it may have been brought to the site from a Viking settlement in Newfoundland, not by Norsemen but by seagoing Indians. After all, he noted, no other Norse materials have been discovered around Blue Hill. Still, the museum is taking no chances. To stave off a possible stampede of runic treasure hunters who might indeed turn Blue Hill into a facsimile of Trillin's Berryville, Maine officials want the area around the Indian mound placed under federal protection...