Word: dab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fullback Lasse Brautaset, John Bowen and Touraj Touran--troubled Harvard the most. Brautaset played like a halfback much of the time, sending short passes to Bowen or dribbling clear before sending long balls down the wings. With ten minutes gone, the highly skilled Bowen made a pretty, right-footed dab of a bouncing ball over Peter Sergienko's head before racing down the wing and centering. He and Touran repeatedly worked the ball towards the middle of the field near the Crimson penalty box. Their eforts, however, came to nought...
...host of other crops have been laced with a chemical pesticide that may threaten the blissful honeybee with extinction. The culprit is methyl parathion, which has been used to combat pests like the boll weevil, scourge of the cotton fields. But methyl parathion is highly dangerous stuff. Only a dab will penetrate the skin, attack the nervous system and kill humans as well as insects...
...Arkansas regulation requiring trucks traveling through the state to buy 65 gal. of gas. "You can't realize how ununited the U.S. is unless you drive across it," says Trucker Tom Strampel. The worst regulations, everyone agrees, are those governing the length and weight of tractor trailers. Smack dab in the middle of the U.S. are seven states that allow trucks a gross weight of only 73,280 Ibs. The states on either side permit 80,000 Ibs. Truckers will do anything to avoid the weigh stations ("chicken coops") in those seven states. "You just can't make...
...where the company is making its summer home. This effect will not only increase the drama of the drama, it will add a humorous dimension to the production. Which finally brings us out of this digression: the only touch Angel Street needs to become a better thriller is a dab of comic relief...
...Supreme Court's ruling on the Bakke case seems to say that unadulterated race in quotas is unlawful but a dab of color mixed with other considerations is acceptable. It is like saying that saccharin is unacceptable in meeting the need for a sweetener but all right if mixed with other ingredients...