Word: breakaway
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...after the Engineers countered with a pair of quick strikes, it took co-captain Julian Alexander's goal off a breakaway with just 19 seconds left to maintain the lead for Harvard...
...best players in the world, Professional Chess Association champion Gary Kasparov and challenger Viswanathan Anand, in a best-of-20 competition for $1 million. (The loser gets half a mil.) The championship is a co-production of the Intel Corp., the computer chip-maker, and the P.C.A., the breakaway chess organization started by Kasparov two years ago. With its heavyweight title-fight purse, a lightweight ticket price, an inspired setting and rules intended to shorten the matches, the event has been designed to reach those of us who still call knights "horsies." Until recently, says P.C.A. commissioner Robert Rice, chess...
...team yielded the goal and it engaged in a very physical, sloppy ball possession game with the Lions. It also failed to convert on a breakaway with five minutes left, but when you've outscored your opponents by three touchdowns after five games, you can overlook such things once in a while...
Sophomore Lindsay Minkus did manage to double Harvard's advantage and take the team's goal-scoring lead with under four minutes left in the opening period. Sophomore Rachel Chernikoff hustled to a loose ball from about 50 yards out and led Minkus on a breakaway to the Black Bear goal. Terpolilli raced out to cut down the angle, but Minkus screamed it by her into the left portion of the goal...
Almost immediately, Wilmot went on a breakaway--remember, Harvard was voluntarily a man down--and a Fairfield defender leglocked him, pulling down his shorts in the process...