Word: suddenness
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...sudden flurry of penalty calls in an otherwise loosely called game allowed Harvard to build a two-goal cushion less than three minutes later. A checking violation by Princeton captain Kim Pearce just 22 seconds after offsetting holding calls were assessed to Lindsay Weaver and Lizzie Keady gave the Crimson a 4-on-3 edge. With the Tigers penalty kill packed in tight in front of the net, co-captain Julie Chu had plenty of room to rifle a slapshot from the point. The team’s other co-captain, Jennifer Sifers, completely screened Parisi on the play...
...move was sudden because the position with the KSG’s health policy program “needed to be filled quickly,” he said...
...beautiful and dignified voices of Africa's mothers. Despite their burdens of poverty and hunger, they will tell you not of their endless toil but of their hopes for their children. But softly, ever so softly, they will also recount the children they have lost, claimed by a sudden fever, children who died in their arms as they were carried in a desperate half-day's journey by foot from the village to the nearest clinic...
...journey into the depths of mathematics. Gauss loves women and Humboldt is curiously asexual. But the two contemporaries are united by their fanatical quest to explore the secrets of the universe. Gauss even abandons his new bride at a climactic moment on their wedding night when he has a sudden idea. Kehlmann has an overabundant imagination, but he's also a thorough researcher, which makes this an engrossing, enjoyable mix of fact and fiction. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Measuring the World manages to be both clever and entertaining, which is a science unto itself. - By Stephanie Kirchner 10. Georg Gerster...
...capped off the run with another three to make it 61-38 with 12:02 left in the game. “Every game it seems like we have a five- or six-minute period where there are some defensive breakdowns and a few turnovers, and all of a sudden we look up and we’re down 15,” Rollins said. “And when you’re going up against a Big 10 team like that, you can’t afford a lackadaisical five minutes.” —Staff...