Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five minutes into the game freshman forward Beth Totman dribbled past a couple of defenders before missing wide right. And five minutes later, freshman midfielder Bryce Weed had a hard drive toward the net saved by Schaeffer...
Harvard nearly found its score just four minutes later off a corner kick from the right side off the foot of freshman midfielder Orly Ripmaster. Ripmaster's ball floated over Schaeffer and in front of freshman forward Joey Yenne. Yenne sent the ball toward the net, but just before it crossed the line it was cleared by a B.C. defender...
Weed gathered the ball and redirected it toward the net. The ensuing shot seemed headed into the left corner of the goal, but the ball deflected off of the inside of the post and out, and was cleared...
Then with just under 10 minutes to play, the Crimson was awarded a direct kick from about 10 yards out of the box, giving it a golden opportunity. Stewart lined up and let fly a rocket toward the net, but once again the shot flew just high of its mark, going over the crossbar...
...many reasons to feel sorry for the United Nations--its marble-and-glass headquarters, after all, have occupied prime Manhattan real estate free of charge for nearly 50 years--but nothing justifies the degree of sheer pitilessness that the U.N.'s biggest, richest and most important member has shown toward the world body since the mid-'80s. That's when the U.S. decided to cut back on paying its U.N. dues, got serious about slashing the organization's bloat, held funding for the U.N. hostage to abortion politics and allowed the U.S. to begin accumulating well over $1 billion...