Word: struck
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...year David Wells threw his perfect game, a rookie Cubs pitcher named Kerry Wood struck out a record-tying 20 batters and the age-defying Roger Clemens, while in the employ of the Toronto Blue Jays at that stage of his pitcher-for-hire phase, became the first pitcher to strike out 18 or more batters in a game for the third time...
...counterattack early in the period. After a series of Crimson attempts on goal, the Golden Knights gained control of the puck and quickly skated across the ice. Beca found space and sent the puck towards goal, but was denied by Carroll. Beca went after the rebound and struck it home to give Clarkson a 3-2 advantage. Harvard answered eight minutes later with a counterattack of its own. The rush began when junior Alex Biega dropped to the ice to block a Golden Knight pass. After the Crimson secured possession and made a couple of quick passes, freshman Daniel Moriarty...
...dimensional,” Asani says. “But there are many other dimensions, such as art, literature, music and poetry, which create a very rich mosaic rarely portrayed.” This mosaic is what these photographs begin to reveal. “I was struck by how well [the photographs] were selected to portray at least three important themes of peace, passion, and submission. These themes are of course central in Sufi thought, but they are also very important Islamic themes, though rarely ever associated with Islam either by the media here, or by those outspoken violent...
...Tigers' de facto capital in northern Sri Lanka, a suicide bomber killed three military personnel in the building, which sits among a cluster of government offices in Colombo's Fort neighborhood, one of the busiest in the city. This is also not the first time that the LTTE has struck Colombo by air. The Tigers started using aerial bombing as a tactic in March 2007, with an attack on another air force base near the airport...
Celebrities tell you more about the countries that produce them than any guidebook could. Take the mouthy, pugnacious Londoner Jade Goody, 27 and famous in the U.K. simply for being famous. Her joyfully lowbrow chatter struck a chord with the British public in 2002 when she appeared on the TV reality show Big Brother. Five years later, when Goody graduated to Celebrity Big Brother, Britons were less comfortable seeing themselves reflected in her instinctive hostility toward Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, the slinky, bejeweled personification of newly confident India. (Read TIME's TV blog, Tuned...