Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only be seen through his playing minutes. While he was hanging back, allowing his defensive partner to break into the offense, Storey was silently learning the art of the trade. An offensive defenseman by nature, Storey used his first few seasons in college to perfect play in his own zone...
Despite his towering 6-foot-2 frame, the Ottowa native has always thrived on breaking forward and weaving through the opponent's zone. Defenses should be most worried, however, when he decides to hang back and let loose with a shot from the blueline. It is there where Storey rises above the rest as he possesses one of the fastest, most accurate slap-shots in the league...
With Vermont now employing a prevent defense and Harvard clearly desperate, Jonas was pulled from hit net with 44 seconds left. The Crimson pounded the puck deep into the Vermont zone, and an attempted centering pass from behind the net found no Harvard stick as the puck slipped down the length of the ice--and into the empty Harvard net. The last Dart-mouth player to touch the puck was goal-tender Andrew Allen, so according to the rulebook the empty-netter belonged to the freshman...
...even relatives have sometimes found it hard to countenance his policy of forgiving the Chinese (he once described Mao as "remarkable," has referred to himself as "half Marxist, half Buddhist," and has stepped back from his original demands of independence to calling only for an autonomous "Zone of Peace"). The pressure on him to forswear his policy of nonviolence has intensified as the years go by, and Chinese repression comes ever closer to rendering Tibet extinct...
...surrounding the F-117 Stealth fighter, U-2 missions and the U.S. aircraft carrier groups assigned to the Middle East, but what about the squadrons of A-10 Warthogs stationed in Kuwait, only 50 miles from the Iraqi border? We have been patrolling the skies over the no-fly zone in southern Iraq--in harm's way--every day, faithfully, since late 1994. I suppose it's much more glamorous to interview the flight crews on a carrier [WORLD, Nov. 24], but the real story lies with the airmen and ground crews who spend a good portion of their service...