Word: towards
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After the coin-toss--the only thing Harvard wonSaturday--captain Brendan Bibro came toward thesideline. The trademark of last year's team wasthat everyone would sprint onto the field,screaming and pounding Bibro, even when he was oncrutches. This year, it was a casual saunter, aroutine huddle, and an uninspired cheer...
Ahern could not control the ball and the rebound made its way to the left side of the box where Zotter was waiting to become a hero. With Ahern out of position, Zotter nonchalantly redirected the ball toward the goal and rolled it into the net to end the game. Miller and Foster were credited with assists...
Williams managed to loft a shot over the diving Burney that floated toward the goal. The crowd had already begun cheering the certain score when Marynick, racing toward her own net, leapt and headed the ball away just before it crossed the goal line. Marynick ended up tangled in the netting of the goal...
...course, he has never faced a moment as dangerous as this one. Democrats are holding themselves aloof from him or worse, some newspapers are already calling for his resignation, and the rough beast of public opinion is slouching toward Washington, however slowly. For all those reasons, no one can rule out the possibility that he might just decide to throw up his hands and go. But everything in his past insists otherwise. In much of his political life, whether it involved welfare reform, tax cutting or health care, Clinton has been famously open to compromise and tactical retreat. Where...
...irreducibly human facts of the case, as detailed in Kenneth Starr's report, are liable to be lost as readers weigh competing legal claims or gasp at the long train of sexual detail. Of course, the report tilts heavily toward Monica's side of the tale, the President having declined to discuss the relationship with any specificity--an unaccustomed act of gallantry, perhaps. Even so, we know enough of his role to give this one passage from the report particular poignancy: "Whereas the President testified that 'what began as a friendship came to include [intimate contact],' Ms. Lewinsky explained that...