Word: wristed
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...experience of Mosul. Fleenor earned a Purple Heart for the injuries he sustained here in 2004, and he lost his best friend, Sergeant Frank Hernandez, to a roadside bomb during the same deployment. As he walks the confines of Rabiya, Fleenor still wears a black metal band on his wrist etched with Hernandez's name. Sergeant Tony Carter, 33, who also served in this city during the early days of the war, acknowledges a sense of frustration with the current situation in light of the years of efforts to calm the city. "Of course, if you spend any time trying...
...fashion, it looked like it would be another easy win for Harvard after the first five minutes.At 2:56 in the first period, the Crimson took a power-play advantage after an interference penalty against Colgate. Sophomore defenseman Kathryn Farni converted on the opportunity 40 seconds later with a wrist shot from the right circle to give Harvard a 1-0 lead. Vaillancourt sent the puck into the Colgate zone to start the play before passing to junior forward Jenny Brine, who threaded the puck to Farni. A short two minutes later at 5:55, the Crimson scored again. This...
...Gunn bringing the ball down the court for the Crimson, Princeton rotating the ball around the perimeter nicely, Koncz pulls up for the three....and misses. Harvard with the ball, Harris backing his defender down, puts up a wayward shot but gets hacked on the wrist. Two from the charity strip. They can take the lead here with two successful free throws. Harris calmly makes both, Harvard regains the lead. [Harvard 26, Princeton...
Does this sound too good to be true? McCain is, as he often admits, a superstitious fellow who depends on talismans for good luck--the penny he carries in his pocket or that rubber band strapped around his left wrist. As it stands, he is still too busy attempting to convince his party and its conservative base that he is not to be feared. Witness his latest endorsement road show: Mitt Romney in Boston, George H.W. Bush in Houston and a bunch of big-name Republican Representatives in Washington. These are the moves of a man still speaking...
...were both sidelined for most of the match. “The most important part was that we didn’t have two players on the court,” head coach Jose Barbosa said. “Both of them were injured. My setter has a hurt wrist and one of my middles bent his ankle.” Due to the missing players, Harvard’s entire lineup shifted. The usual libero, senior Brian Rapp, was filling in for setter. Taking Rapp’s spot was freshmen Jeff Nathan, who saw increased time...