Word: hiccuped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Just before 12:30 at Heathrow, Virgin Atlantic's 747 touched down in Amsterdam, finishing off the event without a hiccup - which is more than could be said for Branson himself. For kicks, the mogul had drunk a sample of his firm's coconut oil and babassu oil jet-fuel blend. "My God that was horrible," he told reporters afterward. "I've been burping ever since." Now that, without a doubt, is a publicity stunt...
...points and four assists. Hallion added nine points and junior Niki Finelli grabbed seven boards. Harvard was very efficient, shooting over 40 percent for the game. And the offensive effort was certainly matched by the hard work put in on the defensive end. After last weekend’s hiccup, the players were looking to turn this weekend into a statement. “[Tonight] we sent a message for the second round of Ivies,” Rollins said. —Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...only hiccup in Obama's final day came in Rochester, where a small group of protesters in the balcony of the Rochester Opera House interrupted his stump speech with a chant, "Abortion is an abomination." When Obama's backers began to drown out the dissidents with their own cheers, Obama hushed the crowd by saying, "This is an example of not listening to each other." But when the chanters would not stop, and the event seemed unable to continue, Obama moved toward a staircase to the balcony, seemingly prepared to talk to the chanters one on one - a dramatic maneuver...
...with worms...it didn’t work.” Ig Nobel Laureate and former Leverett House resident Francis M. Fesmire ’81 was also present. Fesmire won an award in 2006 for a medical study on “digital rectal massage for intractable hiccups.” Standing with a “Dr. Fran’s Anti-hiccup Kit” in hand, Fesmire makes a less-than-stellar sales pitch for his own product. “I have no desire to ever try it again” says Fesmire...
...many ways, the Dominican Republic is a positive example for the Caribbean. It has free and open elections. It has recently revamped its Criminal Procedure Code, leading to a shorter criminal process and faster trials. Its economy boomed throughout the 1990s and, after a brief hiccup in 2003, clocked a 2006 GDP real growth rate of 10.7 percent. But to an estimated 800,000 Haitians currently living in the Dominican Republic, the country with which their homeland shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, is anything but an exemplar of development and democracy...