Word: winner
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...Winner...
Miller made a lot of things happen this weekend. His third goal, coming off a patiently-executed power play, was a quick slapshot that beat goalie Michael Francis. It was also the series' game-winner...
...author is an expert on the painting of the 18th and 19th centuries and a teacher at London's Courtauld Institute of Art. Her six previous novels include Hotel du Lac, the 1984 winner of Britain's top fiction award, the Booker Prize. Yet despite her finished style and genteel settings, she is as hard-boiled as any writer of detective fiction. Many of Brookner's principals are updatings of that familiar character, the English spinster as connoisseur of other people's behavior. Rachel is not only unattached but detached, a state that suits her analytical intelligence and chilly rectitude...
...video screens to pinpoint the hit or miss. Each pilot drops 28 bombs during the six-day contest. Two years ago, the top team triumphed over the runner-up by dropping a single bomb one yard closer. In theory, spring-loaded reflexes and microscopic eyes should make a winner. Pilots joke that proficiency in arcade video games helps too. But skill isn't everything. "Getting that little bitty death dot on that target isn't easy," says Anderson. "You might get bumped by turbulence or the cart ((bomb rack)) might be slow. The jets aren't perfect...
...would have been a strange scene if this game counted as one game. But according to the NCAA's playoff format, this game was only part of a bigger game--the total-goals game. The game where the winner scores the most goals in 120 minutes of hockey...