Word: striking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Montoy received the ball in the center of the box, 15 yards from goal. Montoy beat one man after faking a shot and dumped it off to Lenicheck on his left. The midfielder continued to move to his left, beat one man after faking a left-footed strike, put the ball back on his right foot and rocketed the ball past Quaker goalie Michael O'Connor...
...first 20 minutes of the first half were completely dominated by Harvard. However, its sometimes overzealous offensive attack afforded Boston College a successful way to counter-strike...
Dominic Moore sparked the weekend with a dream first college strike. Taking the puck down the left wing, he undressed Dartmouth defender Carl Desjardins, sliding the puck ahead of him and lifting his stick up and over him. He then executed a triple deke on Almon to give Harvard a 1-0 lead...
Saddam Hussein doesn't get to pick his enemies, but if he did, the choice would be easy. Gunning for him on one front is a 25-year-old rookie pilot from California who wants to be known only by his call sign, "Loose." An F-15E Strike Eagle pilot, Loose recently lit his afterburners to escape a salvo of three Iraqi missiles. "I had a big fat grin," Loose says, remembering the day when the missiles came close, but missed, and his commander radioed back that he could retaliate with a pair of 500-lb. bombs. Once again...
...Stacked Actors" opens the album with the familiar boiling and grinding of a band reeling back to strike. The surprise comes at the moment of explosion when the song suddenly drops into a swishy jazz hum while Grohl croons what sound like sweet nothings--but filled with spite and malice. The chorus smashes back in with reckless abandon and closes in a pile up of distortion and sludge but under it all there are new subtle touches. In "Aurora," what could have degenerated into forgettable mid-tempo filler is saved by spirals of guitar work that slip away...