Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think losing to Boise State was disappointing, but for us the toughest stretch of this season is behind us," Majmudar said. "These teams are going to be a lot weaker, the highest ranked Ivy League team [besides Harvard] is around 70. It is going to be hard for us to keep up our level of play...
...season in place of hard-luck Springer, who broke her collarbone for the second time in 10 weeks with 3:04 left in the semifinal victory over Brown. Fortunately for her teammates, Springer's earlier injury had given the rookie valuable big-game experience over a nine-game stretch during which Harvard clinched the ECAC regular season title...
Mleczko proved the value of her presence on the ice in the final 28:01 of her career in the championship game. A separated shoulder and torn shoulder muscles prevented the best faceoff center in the nation from taking any draws down the stretch in the closest game of the season, and she could not wind up on her powerful slapshot. But the co-captain directed the Crimson defense that shut down the Wildcat power play three times in the third period and overtime. She willed her team to victory by walking into the crease and setting up the game...
...next generation of presidential candidates starts to stir and stretch, all the complicated things the right is arguing about seem to boil down to a simple riddle about America's health: Are we better or worse, richer or poorer, not so much in our pockets as in our souls as a result of all that has happened in these past two decades? On that judgment rides more than who wins the White House next year; this is about what politics can and cannot do, about whether the culture war was a waste of time after...
Those achievements have made Shewchuk an integral part of the nation's longest winning streak at 28 games, although she missed three games during that stretch. She was playing with Botterill on the Canadian Under-22 Team when the Crimson played Boston College and Dartmouth Dec. 18 and 19 and she missed a Jan. 2 game against Maine for disciplinary reasons...