Word: back-and-forth
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Wilkins took the first point of the back-and-forth first game, but Leong soon pulled ahead at 4-1. Wilkins battled back to take the lead at 5-4, but lost her serve on a tough bounce in the back right corner. Leong took advantage to score two points, but Wilkins recovered to tie the game at six before Leong finished the game with three straight points...
Wilkins took the first point of the back-and-forth first game, but Leong soon pulled ahead at 4-1. Wilkins battled back to take the lead at 5-4, but lost her serve on a tough bounce in the back right corner. Leong took advantage to score two points, but Wilkins recovered to tie the game at six before Leong finished the game with three straight points...
...reason, ultimately, lies in how long Harvard plays each game. It’s not really a question of how Harvard plays; even ugly games like a 3-3 tie against Clarkson, a back-and-forth 2-2 tie versus Dartmouth and one-goal losses at Boston College and Cornell have shown the intensity Harvard is capable of competing with...
...series of such back-and-forth sessions that Rumsfeld crafted the war on Iraq. Normally, combatant commanders like former Centcom chief General Tommy Franks would take their plans to Washington for quick approval; under Rumsfeld, Franks had to redraw them repeatedly. Other generals were alarmed to see a Defense Secretary get so far down in the weeds of a military operation. Not since Robert McNamara's Pentagon had civilian authority reached so deeply into the order of battle. Both men played down this back-and-forth at the time. Franks has since told his fellow generals that the early sparring...
...intense back-and-forth exchange between Matthews and Dean about the candidate’s draft deferral, Dean finally admitted that he had been hoping for a deferral when he answered the draft notice with a letter from his orthopedist and x-rays of his bad back...