Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual, Harvard's defense stood strong, stiffening whenever Princeton got close and holding the Tigers to only 73 rushing yards on 33 attempts, a 2.2 average. It made a couple of costly drive-prolonging penalties in each of Princeton's scoring drives, but Murphy gave the defense the credit...
...crowds came from all over the continent.On the banks of the Charles, onlookers wearing sweatshirts emblazoned with the shields of the University of San Diego stood next to those with jackets from McGill University in Montreal. Every Ivy League university had fans in attendance, many of whom tailgated with fellow alumni...
...really exciting to participate in something that's right in our backyard," said Adams as she stood outside the Rialto tent, stirring a fragrant mixture of herb-roasted ricotta ravioli...
...What's the news? But my purpose here is not to defend an everyday kind of hypocrisy. Nor, on the other hand, is it to defend the high tradition that runs from Socrates to Kierkegaard of using irony to knock people off of ideas they have long and lazily stood upon. That use, I think, isn't what's bothering Purdy...
...tour of the state's minority neighborhoods, Bush was introduced at speaking engagements by Floyd Flake, a leading black Democrat. Bush also received a big boost earlier this month when New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, two Republicans with a sporadically contentious relationship, stood together in supporting his candidacy...