The team has lifted their game since last season.

to live down slander

The authors were students and ex-students and nonstudents, those who had arrived at the university not to study in any traditional sense (grab the goodies and run); but had come to sit in the harder school of scant survival and pamphleting and writing and demonstrating and resisting the war.

What seemed a promising turn in their relationship was dashed when he began introducing her to his friends as his godsister.