Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of her chapter on health and emergencies, for example, Hanson writes, "Few things suck more than being sick at college, unless you count Dracula." And a bit later, in the section on athlete's foot: "Like us in so many things, fungi, too, prefer intimate attachments with the buff. But don't rush for the barbells--you too, inactive one, may be blessed by union with some microbes whose biological clocks are telling them to settle down...
...while a college student can afford to groan at such attempts at humor, The Real Freshman Handbook provides an entertaining guide for the future first-year. It just might make the transition from home to dorm a bit easier...
...That was the ballgame right there," Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. "Levy needs to make contact to put the ball in play and get us going, and [Doble got] a lot of curve balls, and he got underneath one a little bit and flew it out. That was a big opportunity for us to bust open the ball game. Every game you get an opportunity, and we just didn't take advantage...
...started to get behind hitters a little bit," Duffell said. "That's basically it--when you get behind hitters, you have to throw your fastball over, and they'll probably hit it. [Walsh] has been telling us all year that you gotta get ahead of the hitters--so they have to hit my pitch. But they were hitting the pitches that they were looking...
...have agreed with Lebed and Yavlinsky on their attitude toward coordinating our election campaigns," Yeltsin told reporters. The two are not quite as enthusiastic. Lebed told reporters that he was not yet prepared to renounce his candidacy after having worked so hard. Yavlinsky too is not straining at the bit to join the Yeltsin ticket. He has severely criticized the war in Chechnya, and might ask Yeltsin to dismiss the heads of Russia's military and security apparatus in return for his support. "There has been a lot of talk recently about various alliances," says TIME's Moscow Bureau Chief...