Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quarters, Blake took on the University of Florida's Jeff Morrison. After dropping the first set in a tiebreaker, Blake found himself serving to stay alive trailing 4-5, 30-40 in the second set. Facing match point, Blake hit an incredible forehand passing shot to stay in the match. He managed to pull out the game, and eventually the set, winning in a tiebreaker, 7-5. Blake won the third set easily...
Harvard began to step up on defense and took advantage of a faulty pass to the point. Junior Trevor Allman took control of the puck and skated hard down the ice toward the right of the net. He faked the shot and dished the puck back to junior forward Brice Conklin, who was trailing the play. Conklin then one-timed the puck past Clemmensen...
Down, but not out, Harvard started a comeback later in the third period. Sophomore forward Chris Bala took a loose puck up the middle of the ice, maneuvering through three B.C. players toward the right of the crease, before delivering the puck to sophomore linemate Harry Schwefel, who redirected it past Clemmensen...
...trio the Fugees (short for refugees) with classmate Prakazrel ("Pras") Michel and Wyclef Jean, who went to a nearby school. The group's debut album, Blunted on Reality, sold poorly. Hill spent about a year at Columbia University but left school when the Fugees' second album, The Score, took off. It has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide...
Jones made her name in the 1970s with brutal tales of sexual abuse and violence. So when she came forth with last year's The Healing, a quiet, sweetly engaging novel that took a National Book Award nomination, readers found themselves surprised as much as delighted. Jones returns with the story of a black female truck driver in south Texas who winds up in an effort to harbor border crossers. Mosquito is a carnival of digression and free association, though, with the plot hijacked for paragraphs, if not pages, by muddled tangents. Questions of racial identity provide an interesting subtext...