Word: stretch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...second half. Jesyka Burks-Wiley’s layup with 16:41 remaining pushed the Terrier lead to 50-40. In what was a game of runs all night—the Crimson responded to a 13-4 BU run in the first half with a 9-1 stretch of its own—Hallion and Harvard provided the final spark. Defensive intensity and renewed effort on the boards helped sustain the run that Hallion started...
...just 25 years old, Michael Blake may have more to do with Barack Obama's chances of becoming President than anyone besides the candidate himself. That may sound like a stretch, but Blake has the all-important job of bringing in new Iowa voters to caucus for the Illinois Senator. And while some campaigns may focus most of their efforts on one or two constituencies - the way John Kerry so successfully courted military veterans in 2004 - Obama is spending an unprecedented amount of money and effort to turn out a wide cross section of new caucus-goers...
...While 20 wins may be a stretch with only 18 regular-season games remaining, a good postseason run for the Crimson might allow Richter to reach that benchmark...
...ultimately did for his city and country was insignificant and self-serving. Recounting Kerik's rites of passage and twisting them into meat for conspiracy theories is petty and niggling. The intent to mask the story as a critical essay on loyalty - well, it just didn't make the stretch. Continuing to rip Kerik through Giuliani and Giuliani through Kerik is a trite and wearisome pastime, isn't it? Chris McLoughlin, Atlanta...
...Many experts in medicine and criminology are skeptical of Darwin's story. How could a man who professed having no memory for such a prolonged stretch suddenly gain such awareness of his circumstances? "It doesn't fit into anything I've ever heard of," Dr. Ashok Jansari, an expert in the neuropsychology of memory at the University of East London, told TIME...