Word: bump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just a bump run, about 300 yards long--a pretty tough run. The prize would go to 'the most exciting run' down this slope. And there were world-class people there...
...coup was "first-rate enterprise," wrote the Post, adding rather guardedly that there was no evidence that the book had been obtained by burglary. The editorial pointed out reasonably enough that when a publisher goes into the business of both "news books" and newspapers, "it is almost certain to bump into some of its most deeply held journalistic principles on the way to the bank." But then the Post accused the Times of "managing the news" by -trying to maintain a predetermined publication date-although protecting a publication or release date is hardly what is generally understood by management...
Clarkson has lost its last two games and Boston College hasn't been the same without defenseman Charlie Antetomaso and should be worse with goalie Paul Skidmore, injured in the last Monday's Beanpot. Look for red hot New Hampshire to bump at least one of them out of the top four...
...described the breakdown in the talks as "very serious" but still insisted that "the prospect for peace, compared with a year ago, is quite good." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance also said that the peace talks were not "dead" but added sadly: "It's obvious we have hit a bump in the road." Vance, who had served as the essential mediator between the Israeli and Egyptian Foreign Ministers during the talks, flew from Jerusalem to Cairo after Kamel's walkout, in a futile effort to get the negotiations going again. He found an enraged Sadat obsessed with Begin's "arrogance...
Among the questions still to be answered: Why did the police at Port Elizabeth fail to tell the examining doctors that Biko had suffered a head bump? Why did the doctors fail to diagnose the brain injury, even though they all noticed that Biko was incoherent? Why was a dying man subjected to a 14½-hour road trip to Pretoria? And what ever happened to the story that he had been on a hunger strike...