Word: staving
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Without any whistles, the overtime periods were instead full of near misses as both teams—Harvard familiar with bonus hockey, the Badgers not having played more than 65 minutes all year—struggled to stave off exhaustion...
...This is, without a doubt, the game of the week--if, of course, Cornell can stave off the Tigers on Friday. Assuming that happens, this contest becomes enormous for both teams, but especially huge for Cornell, which would control its own destiny in the Ivies by beating the Quakers. It doesn’t seem likely, considering Penn shellacked Cornell in Ithaca earlier in the year, but the learning curve for the Big Red’s stellar freshman has been steep. One of those frosh, guard Ryan Wittman--son of Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Randy--will show...
Another issue involves equipment. About 10 years ago, it dawned on ski- and bootmakers that, because of their build, women need lighter, more flexible skis to carve turns, handle bumps and stave off fatigue, as well as boots that better conform to their soles, heels, ankles and calves. With that, a knot of female designers hit the workbench with one thought: the days of shortening a set of men's skis, slapping some pink paint on them and palming them off on women were over. "We don't design jockstraps, so why should men design women's skis?" jokes Alison...
...list for hints). We turned to Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Stephen A. Mitchell for some tips. “An… item, carved some time before 1248, was unearthed in Bergen on a small wooden stave... It reads: ‘You will f**k Rannveig the Red. It will be bigger than a man’s pr*ck and smaller than a horse’s pr*ck.’ There can be little doubt but that one of the individuals whose fate...
...instant they walk in. Upscale ice cream chain Emack & Bolio's recently adopted a waffle-cone smell to attract patrons to the scoop shop within the Orlando, Fla., Hard Rock Hotel, where sales had been flagging. The effect? Ice cream sales shot up more than a third. To stave off olfactory fatigue--customers typically stop noticing a smell after a minute or two--some retailers use a timed sequence of targeted smells to "decorate" an environment...