Word: witheringly
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Again the start of the third period proved the signal of the Crimson’s undoing, though its ultimate downfall was not nearly so grand as in recent years. The Wildcats mounted no game-breaking three-goal flurry. Harvard did not wither in the face of some four-tally comeback for the ages. But just three minutes into the final regulation frame, UNH did draw level, erasing the Crimson’s narrow one-goal lead and seizing whatever momentum Harvard had mustered in the 40-plus minutes prior to the equalizer...
...less than six months to live. "This isn't suicide," Mason insists. "Suicide means a needless taking of life. When five doctors tell you nothing can be done, you are merely insuring that your life ends at the proper time. I don't want my daughters to see me wither away to 80 lbs. and have some night nurse shave my beard to get some tubing into my mouth...
Again the start of the third period proved to signal the Crimson’s undoing, though its ultimate downfall was not nearly so grand as in recent years past. The Wildcats mounted no game-breaking three-goal flurry. Harvard did not wither in the face of some four-tally comeback for the ages. But just three minutes into the final regulation frame, UNH did draw level, erasing the Crimson’s narrow one-goal lead and seizing whatever momentum Harvard had mustered in the 40-plus minutes prior to the equalizer...
...people can even vote--it's a remarkable experience." Bush views his decision to press for the transformation of Afghanistan and then Iraq--as opposed to "managing calm in the hopes that there won't be another September 11th, that the Salafist [radical Islamist] movement will somehow wither on the vine, that somehow these killers won't get a weapon of mass destruction"--as the heart of not just his foreign policy but his victory. "The election was about the use of American influence," he says. "I can remember people trying to shift the debate. I wanted the debate...
It’s a sickening feeling, watching the fourth championship contender in as many years (Harvard—2001, Penn—2002, 2003) wither and die under the most ill-conceived of all of the ignorant policies—and there are myriad—the Ivy Presidents have passed in relation to athletics...