Word: onslaught
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...Despite an apparent lack of focus, Harvard still appeared the superior team for nearly the whole game. On the day, the Crimson posted 24 shots and held a 9-1 advantage in corner kicks, but Crusader goalkeeper Jessica Stone stood strong against Harvard’s offensive onslaught to record fourteen saves. In the opening frame, the Crimson controlled play and rarely allowed pressure into its own half. But after a seemingly endless number of near-misses and unlucky breaks, Harvard found itself in a scoreless match at the break. “The focus wasn’t there...
...stamp on the discussion of major public issues. Religious rhetoric and symbols are employed in identity politics in the United States and around the world. Some may want to throw up their hands and wish religion would simply disappear, as it was supposed to with the onslaught of modernity. But realpolitik dictates otherwise...
...Joining The New York Times were publications like CNN.com and The Washington Post, both of whom printed timelines where June 25 was the date of provocation they said justified the Israeli onslaught...
...across the goal line to clear the ball. Knoche did her part in the cage, laying out to reject a breakaway shot with only seconds left and tallying six saves in the half. The Harvard defense and the 15-minute intermission seemed to quell the Blue Devils’ onslaught. It was not until 20 minutes into the second period that Duke would again find the Crimson net, putting the home team up 5-1 with Stopfords’ third of three. Knoche nearly stuffed the shot, but the ball took an unfriendly bounce past her and into the roof...
...tent may be pitched in the area. “There’s an ongoing competition,” said Joshua M. Brener ’07, president of the Pudding, “and the circus is down on its luck and looking to fight off the onslaught of the advancing freak show.” In the midst of this rivalry, one of the circus’s star acrobats develops a verboten love for one of the freaks, a failed Japanese Samurai-cum-sword-swallower fittingly named Ai Swallows. “The Ancient Tent Commandments...