Word: staving
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...make money - some $2.5 million from 40 pictures - but part of it he gave away and the rest he lost in poor investments. For the past several years he was hounded by creditors. When he died, he was on a business trip trying to close one last deal to stave off bankruptcy...
...name during the battle. As history has it, the V.M.I, cadets returned to their barracks at Lexington one night after a commemorative ceremony for their old professor, General Stonewall Jackson, who had died the previous year at Chancellorsville. Then the boys got the word: they were needed to help stave off the Yankee advance...
Pete Varney's two-run homer gave Harvard a three-run fifth inning lead, but it took a good relies job by J.C. Nickens and a clutch throw by Dave Ignacio to stave off a Springfield rally in the ninth and preserve an 8-7 Crimson victory yesterday at Soldiers' Field...
Harvard is still suffering from an inability to stave off its opponent during man-down situations. Against Navy, the Crimson was penalized 16 minutes, and the disciplined Navy offense put in five goals on the same man-up play. These tallies helped the Midshipmen build up an early 6-2 lead which Harvard could not overcome...
Playing the way it did against Brown on Friday, the Crimson proved itself the superior team early against Yale, but then lost momentum and had to stave off repeated Eli comeback attempts...