Word: bump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kramer kicked off his hat trick performance with an open shot in front of goal off a feed from midfielder Paul Baverstock. He followed with a cross shot into the right corner of the net, and cleaned up with a short bump off a Brandeis defender less than two minutes later...
...guys don't have to go to city hall or to the organization you'll bump into top state officials in hall-ways and get what you need," White told the members of the Democratic Club Ward Five members. Ward Five is in the Beacon Hill area right near the state capitol building...
With so much overseas demand for high-profile U.S. commercial property, competing foreign bidders practically bump into one another at airports. To increase their already considerable bargaining power, many would-be buyers go to striking lengths to conceal their ultimate intentions. The Japanese Komatsu executives who went shopping in Tennessee for a factory kept their state government hosts completely in the dark about what they actually wanted. After a tour of the 1940s-era structure that eventually housed their heavy-equipment concern, the Japanese pronounced it "very dull and scary, very gloomy," recalls John Gregory, a Tennessee official who escorted...
...more insidious effect beyond making cheating like a crap shoot in which you win (steal the answer) or lose (get caught). It creates a situation in which the cheater is not committing a crime again his next-desk neighbor, but against a group of obnoxious people who bump his chair while he is trying to write his essay. It's not that proctors aren't nice people--and it is good that someone will do the task--but they really shouldn't have any effect on someone's decision to cheat or not. A student should have to feel...
...know about it. Higher up the celebrity scale are stars of a magnitude for which we have no adequate word and for whose well-being we can never have enough concern. Sitting monarchs and Presidents, for example. Two weeks ago Ronald Reagan incurred a "small, red bump" on his eyelid (caused by a contact lens). You could read about it on page 3 of the Washington Post. A classic of the genre is an item that ran in the New York Times a couple of years ago: GLASS CUTS KISSINGER'S NOSE. Only a nick really, and he'd been...