Word: stretch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first two threes after halftime, it looked like the senior shooting guard was heading to another performance like last year’s at Brown, when he shot 8-of-10 from three-point range and finished with 30 points. But Goffredo faced significantly amplified pressure down the stretch, and did not hit again from the floor, misfiring on the final six shots he took. ON THE RISE Friday night was another impressive exhibit in the season-long display of Brown guard Mark McAndrew’s multiple basketball talents. The 6’2 junior from Barrington...
...despite the differences, the two defeats represent the same threat--an extended losing streak as a direct result of the psychological torment of Harvard’s personal demon. And unless someone steps up for the Crimson, it is a threat that could easily become realized down the stretch, as Harvard is on the road at Brown and Yale this weekend before returning home to face the Penn/Princeton axis once again...
...pages out loud. The lush descriptions of Arlington Park and its residents seem to enter the transcendent realm of poetry.Unfortunately, eloquence does not in itself make a book engaging, and Cusk is perhaps a little too aware of her literary prowess. An otherwise minor descriptive line will stretch out into a paragraph, a paragraph into a page, a page into a chapter, and so on, with the end result that “Arlington Park” resembles a hardy green woolen scarf whose orderly knit rows are interrupted by splotches of purple silk—beautiful...
...favorite eateries - okay, that's a stretch to describe a gas canister, a slab of wood, a mortar and pestle and a few plastic bags of veggies and meat hung on an accommodating tree branch - is just outside my office. A man in a straw hat grills chicken, pork and fish marinated in garlic, white pepper and coriander root. His wife pounds green papaya for spicy salads and simmers broth in a battered pot balanced on what looks like a Bunsen burner. My husband and I gorge for $3 - and there's always enough for the street dogs that cozy...
...points, including all four in the first overtime, until Pusar converted again late in the second extra session.“We had trouble finishing tonight,” Sullivan said. “Credit Princeton for some of that, but we had some good opportunities in that stretch, but we just could not finish them off.”As the second overtime came, an exhausted Housman had nothing left in the tank, leaving the Princeton sharpshooters free to attack, punctuated by senior Kyle Koncz’s three to put the Tigers...