Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) scored the final six points in the mud of Harvard Stadium during a crucial three-minute stretch in the middle of the fourth period, and sophomore kicker Mike Giampaolo's career-long 43-yard field goal proved to be the game-winner...
Harvard might be a team of destiny, but it made its own destiny down the stretch...
...game the next possession, a 65-yard bomb to junior wide receiver Ryan Crowley. The Tigers caught the Crimson blitzing, and Crowley beat sophomore Mike Madden for the score. The extra point made it 12-8, and that's when Harvard started making the big plays down the stretch which have been previously lacking...
...character, Lesly, discovers that her fiance has been re-enacting the assassination of John F. Kennedy with his twin sister by way of foreplay. For Spelling, at last, the kitsch is overt, and thus The House of Yes represents what is known in the business as an opportunity to stretch...
...when the hero decides that not only does he like sex, but that sex is the natural and proper center of life, he loses a certain amount of reliability. Even die-hard Updike fans may have difficulty stomaching reflections like the following: "When my erection... had attained full stretch, with my left hand cupped nurturingly about my balls, I admired it--the inverted lavender heart-shape of the glans, the majestic tensile column with its marblelike blue-green veins and triple-shafted underside. Stout and faithful fellow! My life's companion.... Nothing as solid and rea... [He is] my best...