Word: weren
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...weren't able to find the best shots toward the end of the game," Brown said. "The Cornell defense had tightened up considerably...
When the shooting finally stopped at Columbine High School, and students ran out of their hiding places to safety, some of the most hulking male students had stripped off their shirts. They weren't posing for the cameras. Word had spread through the school that the "Trench Coat Mafia" was hunting for athletes, and at Columbine a polo shirt--and a white baseball cap--marked the wearer as a jock...
...your group," he told me. "I didn't want you to teach her how to write." This is not what you want to hear from your boss. I told the girls he meant that because my style is so complex, it would be confusing to them. They weren't buying...
...officers at ground zero say hindsight doesn't do them justice. "People who weren't there don't understand," Deputy Paul Smoker, the second officer on the scene, told the Denver Rocky Mountain News. "It was unbelievable craziness." Part of the problem may be that the SWAT team was facing the emerging new paradigm of American crime: the school massacre. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold weren't bank robbers or hostage-takers; they wanted nothing except to kill, often and quickly, and they had the preparatory advantages of being insiders. Any of the hundreds of backpacks littering the hallways could...
...During the last two minutes, the score was 10-8, and we had possession for most of that time," Brown said. "We just weren't able to get good looks or make accurate shots at the end. Basically, our biggest challenge during the game was getting over the time mark...