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Word: bumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final score was almost the only satisfying aspect of the contest for Harvard. From the start, the game was played the way Northeastern likes is--bump-and--grind hockey, chocked with lots of bodychecks (and a few cheap shots). In one of the ECAC's smallest rinks, the Crimson never succeeded in playing the fast-skating game it thrives...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Sudden Death for Huskies: Icemen Down N.U. in OT, 4-3 | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

...idea of a perfect afternoon was lying in front of the radio rereading my favorite Big Little Book, Dick Tracy Meets Stooge Viller . . . seeing me having a good time in repose, she was powerless to hide her disgust. 'You've got no more gumption than a bump on a log,' she said," dispatching her errant son on some new mission of self-improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Country Boy | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...Center. But Cambridge is a densely populated city (despite what your roommate from New York tells you), and the 90,000 odd people who live here are as varied as the shoe styles available in the Square. On this page are a handful of the friendly faces you may bump into if you wander off campus, perhaps to Central Square, or Porter Square--on a sunny September afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Faces | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Catherine Oxenberg. We had to meet her, bump into her by accident in the Science Center. At least watch her walk across the Lamont Library lobby, for God's says. Our hearts ached...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Pictures of Catherine | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...oddest spectacles in America, in fact, has to be a Tom Jones audience, in which a couple of dozen women, usually attractive and well dressed, throw their panties onto the stage and compete for what appears to be a deep kiss from the male master of the bump and grind. Yet even in Atlantic City only four casinos regularly count on stars to help fill the gaming rooms. Like their counterparts in Vegas, the other five produce their own revues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Are the Stars Out Tonight? | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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