Word: swats
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...season’s second to last game, Holsey went to swat a ball away from a Yale guard, but instead of coming up with the steal, she came away with a stinging shoulder. Her right shoulder popped out of its socket, putting the rest of her freshman season on hold...
...their sublime run to the championship, the Sox put to rest one of baseball's most irresistible legends: that the great George Herman Ruth, a.k.a. Babe, Bambino and Sultan of Swat, had jinxed the team when the Sox sold him to the Yankees in 1920 for $100,000 so that Boston owner Harry Frazee could finance a Broadway show. With Ruth, the Beaneaters won three World Series, the last in 1918. After Ruth, they reaped eight decades of squat, with the occasional run at the title always ending in tragedy, including seventh-game World Series losses to St. Louis...
Four years later, a group of women formed Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), launching a “SWAT the Fly” campaign after the club’s leader, Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88, filed a complaint against The Fly with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The complaint was dismissed in 1990 when the commission failed to find jurisdictional justification to proceed. Then-President of the Fly Andrew M. Cameron ’91 told The Crimson following the verdict, “The issue of allowing women in is for the members to decide, undergraduates...
...feel like an assault. Each side has declared that the other will do anything to win, which means that if this race stays tight, whichever candidate loses is less likely to think that he was beaten than that he was robbed. Already the planes are fueled, the legal SWAT teams ready, the recount office spaces reserved and provisions made for staplers and coffeemakers in the event that Election Day does indeed become Election Month...