Word: stretching
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...cliché that sport imitates life is a stretch. But sport does reveal what makes a winner. Above everything else - talent, training, luck - it's tenacity, like that shown at the Australian Open by tennis players Li Na and Zheng Jie. They made history by being the first Chinese, indeed the first Asians, to take half the semifinal places in a Grand Slam singles event. It was irrelevant whether the two would progress further in the tournament - their feat was already a huge achievement in a game long dominated by the West. Now the smart money is on China displaying...
...drove hard down the middle of the lane for an uncontested lay-up. A little over two minutes later, the senior knocked down a three-pointer for the right corner, and in the ensuing possession, he drove and dished to Miller for an easy two. The stretch was part of a run that pushed Harvard’s lead to 17 points midway through the half...
...play as a team, move the puck, and come out with 100 percent effort, we have the ability to win a lot of games. That’s easier said than done but if we can do that we’ll do very well here down the stretch...
...interest of full disclosure, in its final stretch From Paris With Love is inadvertently hilarious (Rhys Meyers gets most of the intended laughs; he's halfway to good in this mess). The dramatic climax involving a beautiful suicide bomber is particularly funny. The revelation that she is bad to the bone leads to great bafflement on the part of her former fiancé, who is crushed by her betrayal. "She never talked about her life, and I never thought to ask," he says. Could screenwriter Adi Hasak possibly have come up with a better line illustrating the depth of this...
...teams exchanged points down the stretch, tying the score at 25 and then at 27. Weintraub broke the tie on his next serve, getting the ball to dance on the net before dropping onto the Baruch side...