Word: took
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Harvard was not entirely without offensive opportunities of its own. Collins broke away from the pack late in the first half, but the Princeton defense reacted before she could even get a shot off. With 32 minutes left in the second frame, junior Katie Schoolwerth took two straight shots from the top of the circle off a penalty corner, but both were deflected before reaching...
...67th minute, Collins finally broke through the Tigers' stingy defense. The play began with the second of two consecutive Harvard penalty corners. Sophomore Liz Sarles controlled the ball at the top of the circle and passed it immediately to her left, where Collins was waiting unguarded. She took a couple of steps and slipped a shot into the gap between DeJong and the left post...
...death or disappearance of 3,400 suspected communists and leftists, not to mention the torture of thousands of others. With that legacy hanging over his head, Pinochet rammed through an array of constitutional measures that made him immune to prosecution, including a lifetime Senator's seat that he took amid widespread protest last March, when he retired as an army general. "The locks and bolts made him untouchable," says Christian Democratic Congressman Andres Palma. "And he believed they would accompany him wherever he went in the world...
...none of those extravagances really made him happy. So in 1989 Monaghan took a two-year leave from Domino's to devote himself to Catholic charities and soon began to dump his toys. (The Tigers went to Little Caesars owner Michael Ilitch in 1992 for $85 million.) "Most of the time I was buying things to get attention, to have people notice me," Monaghan once remarked. "That's the sin of pride, the worst sin of all, and I'm the guiltiest person...
...around 5,000 gathered in the night on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, in a candlelight vigil that struggled to make another argument and extract another message from his death. Ellen DeGeneres, Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank, the openly gay Massachusetts Congressman--all the expected speakers took the microphone. What was less expected was the sheer turnout of lawmakers at a moment when Congress was embroiled in the crazy closing hours of the budget deal. So many members showed up to voice their grief and anger that House minority leader Dick Gephardt had time only to read their...