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...yesterday, just about an hour and a half before taking on the Crimson. Harvard didn't waste any opportunities to gain an edge on its California opponent--between the MIT and Crimson games, the 22 Bruins were "treated" to a Lowell House dinner. (How was the food, guys? Grimace, burp, fart...

Author: By Jay Woodruff, | Title: UCLA Gives Hosts 29-5 Polo Lesson | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

Says he: "This is definitely the longest role ever written. For 2% hours each evening I talk nonstop, with no time to swallow, burp or clear my throat. Not even Hamlet or Lear talks that long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Broadway Has a New Language | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...Mount St. Helens [June 2] is something of a baby among volcanoes, or a mere 37,000 years old. Some baby; some burp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...FROM a far off and heathen wasteland to the north of fair Cambridge. A rabble-rousing band of fierce knights, they were known throughout the kingdom for their green complexions and hairy palms. Their maidens were robust and buxom and could quaff a barrel of ale with scarcely a burp. These were the Green Meanies of Hanover...

Author: By Faithful Scribe, | Title: Green Meanies | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...these patients. Because the surgery disrupts the windpipe, the surgeon must create a small hole in the throat for breathing. But talking is another matter. Some people can learn to gulp air through the mouth, force it down the esophagus, or gullet, instead of the windpipe, and literally burp it back up into a cavity called the pharynx, where a rough facsimile of the natural voice is produced. But like all too many throat cancer patients, Parello was never able to master such esophageal speech. "I just couldn't do it," she recalls. "My children learned to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking Again | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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