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Injuries also hurt the thinclads' finish in the meet, Hunt said. He predicted that if Darlene F. Beckford '82, who was grounded in Cambridge with a bum knee, had been able to compete. "She would have easily won the 1500- and 800-meter races, giving us 14 or 15 more points," and moving Harvard's team score into second place...
Gaines attributes his drive to his family: "We've always been real competitive, dedicated to excelling. If I want to get anywhere in life. I'll have to have this same kind of dedication after swimming. If I don't I'll end up a bum in the gutter...
...Philly's got a balanced offense, with Carmichael and Montgomery. Only one NFC team that's gonna stop that offense, and it ain't the Vikings, that's for sure. And Cleveland," he continued, "there's an overrated team. Why, two years ago they all thought Sipe was a bum...
...destruction of the natural beauty of the Rocky Mountain states in order to provide the nation with a few years' supply of oil is like a bum burning a Renoir for a few minutes of fire...
People testily debated the treatment accorded the so-called Bonus Marchers -a plucky contingent of some 20,000 veterans who, invading Washington to demand bonus money, got instead an official bum's rush from Congress, backed up by troops commanded by Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur. Was that any way to treat men who fought in the war? The World War, that is. It did not yet own a Roman numeral...