Word: struck
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...victory.’” ALL SORTS OF SPECIAL The cold, windy conditions also made special teams play particularly difficult for both teams, and both teams committed major gaffes in the kicking game. The worst came in the first quarter, when a Crimson punt struck a member of Yale’s return team and was recovered by Harvard at the Yale 13. The recovery led to the only touchdown of the afternoon. But that, while the most noticeable, was hardly the only special-teams shift of the day. Crimson punter Thomas Hull shanked two punts...
...uneventful first period, Cornell came out aggressively in the second. In the first two minutes of the frame, the Big Red had three good looks at the net, including a close-range slapshot, but it could not break junior goaltender Christina Kessler. But it would be the Crimson that struck first in the frame, after Brine recovered her own shot to sneak it in. The second half of the game was marked by multiple Crimson shot attempts and dominant goaltending by Cornell junior goaltender Jenny Niesluchowski. Harvard was able to convert on its attempts with a spectacular power-play goal...
...across as levelheaded and even soft-spoken. Says John Sexton, the president of New York University, who previously chaired the committee that picked Geithner for the New York Fed job: "I've been in conversations with Tim on critically important and time-sensitive issues, crises, and I've been struck by his ability to stay calm...
...Tangjiashan, which was destroyed in a landslide, now live in makeshift houses, among which Luo Xiqun, 22, runs a tiny shop selling soft drinks, beer, hot sauce, instant noodles, cooking oil and toothpaste. She and her boyfriend Yang Yong had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says. "No one else in the same building made it out, but somehow I survived." Luo walked five days with an injured foot...
...Hanwang, resigned to the fact that he would soon find his mother's corpse. As rescuers moved debris with a crane, Deng, 18, told me in nearly flawless English about life in his mountain town, about how he was preparing for his college-entrance exams before the quake struck. Eventually I left to walk through the wreckage of Hanwang. When I returned to where Deng was waiting, two covered corpses were lying outside the massage parlor. A family member identified Deng's mother. Deng called me over. In a voice cracking with emotion, he offered me a final few words...