Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hynes overcame any first game jitters when he was severely tested late in the third stanza. With one minute and a half remaining in regulation time, a Harvard defensive lapse left Dartmouth's Murphy standing alone in front of the Crimson goal with the puck on his stick. Murphy deked, Hynes sprawled and smothered the disk. One minute later, the sophomore goaltender from Chatham repelled a flurry of Dartmouth shots from close range to put the contest into overtime...
...near-broken Secret Service, borders on the embarrassing. The equation fails not, of course, because it isn't accurate, but because it is so obvious and, in the end, so trivial. The author would be well advised to leave the political profundity to the philosophers and sociologists, and stick to the gut-level dramatic dialogue that he knows best...
...politicians don't always behave. Two weeks ago, the city council voted to urge the Cambridge Housing Authority to reinstate Francis G. White, its former director of maintenance, in what one source termed a pre-election move to gain votes. The request couldn't stick, however; White still doesn't work at the housing authority...
...them women. Classically known as "fear of open spaces," agoraphobia is actually a cluster of different fears, all amounting to intense anxiety about panicking in unfamiliar situations. Crowds are no protection; Oppenheimer suffered one attack while surrounded by 55,000 fellow Met fans at a playoff game. Severe agoraphobics stick to familiar routines and rarely venture out alone. When they do travel, they usually bring along a friend, child or dog as a prop. "For years," says Oppenheimer, "I was terrified of a new bed, chair, bar, room or restaurant...
...defending successfully against this attack, Restic pointed out, is to have everyone stick to his assignment. If the defensive players follow their normal inclination to help out and swarm toward the ball carrier, they'll leave themselves wide open to the pitch...