Word: highes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dogs and stayed inside day after day, playing by themselves while then" parents slept or sought work. The parents did notice something they considered "childish gibberish." Playing in the corner, Gracie, the dominant twin, would hold up an object and seem to give it a name. Ginny would respond. High-speed dialogue followed. "They could say simple words," Tom Kennedy remembers, "mostly like Indians would talk in the movies...
...Linguists Meier and Newport now call Gracie and Ginny's speech "deformed English." What had seemed to be a vocabulary of hundreds of new words, when slowed down and analyzed on tape recordings proved to be about 50 complex mispronounced words and phrases jammed together and said at high speed. There was also "substantial variation" every time the twins talked. Phonetic transcripts initially brought run-together phrases like "pink-telephone" and "let's-go-marketing" to the surface, and they finally traced most of Ginny and Gracie's speech to English and minor German influences. One initial...
Larry Countryman and Steven Schramm did the most damage, each recording two individual firsts. Countryman took the 1000 (9:37) and 500 (4:37.1) freestyles, while Schramm dominated both the low-and high-board diving...
...Kevin Lovitt slammed Harvard's Rob Burns to the ground and trudged off to the penalty box to serve a two-minute minor for roughing. Before he could get very far, however, Britz arrived with his bone-crunching retaliation and received the inevitable punishment: five minutes for malicious high-sticking...
Unlike the disaster against Wagner Friday night, the Fordham game had its bright spots. The brightest was the performance of 6-ft. 9-in. freshman forward Lamar Flatt, who scored 14 points and grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds...