Word: swallower
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...goal lead evaporate in the second half.The offense clicked early for Harvard en route to a 6-4 lead, but a series of third quarter miscues opened the door for a 6-0 run by the Stags.“That [Claremont game] was the toughest loss to swallow, because it was within our reach,” Atkinson said. “We were feeling good, but in the third quarter we lost focus…Hopefully one of the things we will learn is how to finish a game like that.”Voith tallied...
Though slurry doesn't look particularly eco-friendly, aerial firefighting is not environmentally harmful, Upton says - though planes avoid dumps near lakes, streams and other waterways (in especially sensitive areas, tankers drop plain water instead). The Forest Service also advises against allowing pets to swallow the stuff, as with other fertilizers. Still, the retardant poses another, less-publicized hazard, Upton says: to fashion. She's been on the ground as a rain of colored fertilizer falls from the sky: "I've had plenty of pink t-shirts...
...left-leaning, flexibly minded, young and middle-aged people—was, at least on the gut level, sympathetic to the ban. Yet, as abhorrent as the burqa is to me, the notion of legislating an outright ban was something that, with my American gut, I could not swallow...
Though she dismissed Tenenbaum's defense, calling it "so broad that it would swallow the copyright protections that Congress has created," Gertner acknowledged situations in which downloading copyrighted files might fall under fair...
...huddled with a group of Blue Dogs on July 21, has embraced pay-as-you-go, at least in theory, but the sheer scale of his agenda puts Moore on the spot. Each individual item may be worthy; piled onto a single plate, it's a lot to swallow. "I think President Obama has correctly identified a number of crucial long-term issues facing our country," Moore says, "and I hope that he'll see that we can't tackle them all at once...