Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Sullivan's permutations seemed to work on the Tigers' variation of the motion offense. When Harvard went into the zone, it initially frustrated the Tigers, but they easily recovered and El-Nokali hit the outside shots and finished with 13 points. When Harvard went into a full-court press, the results were almost comical, as Young had a slam dunk off an easy break and the Tigers also completed a "home-run pass" play behind two Crimson defenders...
Even before the results were in from New Hampshire, McCain was raising his game to a more professional level. The freewheeling press salons that used to take place unchaperoned by any campaign aides are now more structured. Strategist Mike Murphy sits at McCain's right hand, playing hall monitor by clarifying positions and editing possible missteps the candidate might make. Murphy is a bottomless pit of tall tales and campaign spin who can spell the candidate from having to provide round-the-clock sound bites and chatter...
...there was always Schulz. "Peanuts" was his life, and we followed its arc in the lines he drew for the strip: Tentative at first, in "Li'l Folks," the proto-"Peanuts" comic started for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1947; bold, strong and in control it its 1960s heyday (even Linus lookedsecure); ragged in its final years. Somehow, even though we all knew what to expect - and what an ultimate betrayal that would have been, for Lucy to actually let Charlie Brown kick that football - we were always interested in the whole neurotic gang, and now that Charles Schulz...
...going to make his stand here, turning South Carolina into his battleground to once and for all dispel the notion that Republicans should consider voting for John McCain. Bush says he can certainly see why Democrats would; on Sunday he told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" that those sly Dems were planning on pulling the McCain lever just so they could stack the deck in favor of their candidate in the general election. Although this seems to veer dangerously close to the paranoid territory known as Perot-land (hmm... the Reform party doesneed a candidate), some polls do back...
...this year, Trimble faced down an internal revolt last October by a narrow margin, and managed to stay in the process only by vowing to walk out if the IRA hadn't at least begun disarming by the end of January. Although Adams agreed in December to press for some movement on this front, he's been unable to sell accelerated disarmament to a movement that sees its weapons as the only reason Britain and the Unionists ever bothered to talk to the Republicans. "Pressure from Trimble and London has made it harder for Adams to persuade...