Word: third
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Saturday marked the Crimson's third game without the help of their scoring leader, Clemente. Clemente, who last played on Dec. 7, is sidelined for the season with a detached retina...
...Crimson came with six seconds left in the game, long after the outcome had been decided, when senior defenseman Christie MacKinnon was called for covering the puck in the crease, giving the Americans a penalty shot. But sophomore goaltender Alison Kuusisto stuffed Meaghan Sittler, Team USA's third-line center, to keep the score in single-digits...
...Yugoslav People's Army was, according to the American diplomat George Kennan, the third strongest in Europe. A Croatian army did not exist in the early '90s. On the one hand, Tudjman managed to organize resistance and thus prevent the total crushing of a young democracy by tanks--a scenario that would have been comparable to the events in Tiananmen Square...
...miles away, timed to go off first and lure police away from the school; a second set in the cafeteria, to flush terrified students out into the parking lot, where Harris and Klebold would be waiting with their guns to mow them down; and then a third set in their cars, timed to go off once the ambulances and rescue workers descended, to kill them as well. What actually happened instead was mainly an improvisation...
Teaching seemed a natural, uncomplicated career choice for Stacey Moskowitz. "I like children," she says. "I enjoy watching them learn the things you need to do to succeed in life." In 1990, in her mid-20s, she began teaching third grade at Community Elementary School 90 in the Bronx, N.Y., where she learned how to succeed on the school's terms. She says the principal's underlings gave her a list of students along with the order "to make sure they passed" standardized reading exams. On the mornings of such exams, she was given...