Word: toughed
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Everything was going according to plan. In a tough if not ugly matchup against Brown, the Harvard men’s basketball team was up six, 59-53, with just under two minutes to play.A missed rebound and resultant three made it 59-56, but with senior stalwart Drew Housman—a career 81 percent free-throw shooter—going to the line for a one-and-one with 1:08 to play, the Crimson seemed to have little reason to worry. But after a missed first shot and a Bears layup on the other...
...Brown has historically been a tough match for Harvard. In the past three seasons, the Crimson is 1-4-3 against the Bears...
...Throughout my career, they’ve always been a tough opponent for us,” McCafferty said. “No matter what the records and what the scores, they always give us a good game and we didn’t expect anything less tonight...
...months of training, Qasab learned to fire AK-47s, studied the Indian security agencies and was trained in the "handling of hand grenade, rocket launchers and mortars, Uzi gun, pistol [and] revolver." Other LeT militants have noted the physical demands that accompanied the firearms practice. "The training was really tough," Mohammad Usman, a former jihadi, tells TIME. "But when we went to Kashmir, on my first operation across the Line of Control [which divides Pakistani-controlled Kashmir from the Indian side], I got separated from my group for 15 days. I had nothing, so the training helped...
...cracks in the relationship began to show in January, when McConnell - fresh off his own surprisingly tough re-election battle - told the National Press Club that he would wait to comment on the 2010 race until Bunning "had made his intentions clear." That prompted a furious response from Bunning, who suggested McConnell has either lost his memory or his honesty. "He knew very well what my intentions are," he said in a conference call with reporters the next...