Word: contesters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back on their feet, catching a breath, calculating advantage, their faces streaked with sweat and gore. Both were bleeders. Weeks before, in a qualifying bout, Forrest Griffin, 26, had suffered a gash above an eye that required so many stitches that few expected him to advance in the contest. He healed in time for this evening's punishment, and as Stephan Bonnar, 28, punched him in the head, Griffin cheekily offered a come-hither smile, turned the other cheek and slammed back...
...griping misfits," says FT coordinator and playwright Nikolai Khalezin, 40. The Moscow Art Theater is rehearsing his play Here I Come, but the work will not be performed in his own country. "No production is allowed unless cleared by censors," he says. Last March the FT announced a playwriting contest on its website; so far, 321 works have been submitted, even though the constraints on the FT means plays can only be staged clandestinely in barns, privately owned stores and workshops or, as last month, in a bar. The bar proprietor risked his license, as the authorities also turn...
Since 2001, the league’s most identifiable contest hasn’t been the richly celebrated series between Harvard and Yale, but rather the battle waged a week prior between the Crimson and the Quakers...
Harvard overpowered Yale in the contest, and its skills determined the pace and nature of the game...
...contest that featured 23 ties and 10 lead changes, Harvard showed that despite the graduation of front liners Kaego Ogbechie and Nilly Schweitzer, as well as setter Kim Gould, the Crimson was a force to be reckoned with...