Word: hops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rand showed up in Cambridge better late than never, and proceeded to find out that even at Harvard, and even with a high school skiing captaincy pasted on his bindings, it would be no hop, skip and ski jump onto the Alpine squad...
...dinners are "average Americans." The President plans to make other brief forays around the country, settling down for the night in the homes of private citizens. After his visit to Clinton this week, Carter will travel to Charleston, W. Va., for a conference on energy and coal, and then hop up to New York City to deliver a U.N. address that will outline his general views on foreign policy...
...what other sport can you take a crow-hop before tossing the ball, hustle your way out of a pickle, sharpen your skills with pepper, or get thrown out of the game for a rhubarb...
...someone seeking advice about what to do for an ache, for example, or who is secretly worried about occasional bowel bleeding or vague chest discomfort, the search through a standard handbook may produce more anxiety than the malady; the reader must hop from disease to disease until he finds one with symptoms that match his complaint. Symptoms adroitly solves that difficulty. It catalogues not only diseases but, in a separate section, their symptoms as well. Thus if the reader has, say, a swelling in his leg, he simply looks in the table of symptoms under the heading "Bones, Joints, Muscles...
They should have paid closer attention to their victim. They should have noticed, for example, that when Carrie is around, ashtrays have a way of hop ping up off desks, that mirrors suddenly break for no reason at all, that windows have a way of slamming shut without anyone's touching them. For Carrie possesses the power of telekinesis, the ability to animate objects and make them obey her will. In short, beneath that mousey exterior, that shy desire simply to be accepted, a terrible power lurks, waiting to be called forth...