Word: humped
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...Buccaneers paid that hefty price to acquire coach Jon Gruden last offseason in a trade with the Raiders (who also made out like, um, bandits), but he put them over the hump after they stalled in the playoffs four of the last five years. Now Tampa Bay has wiggled out of the undistinguished group of franchises that have never advanced to the Super Bowl: Arizona, Carolina, Cleveland, Detroit, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Seattle. Considering only one of those teams, Cleveland, even made the playoffs this season, it's no stretch to say they'd all accept a similar deal...
...ourselves in a position,” Sullivan said. “We couldn’t guard them when we needed to get over the hump...
...ourselves in a position,” said Harvard coach Frank Sullivan. “We couldn’t guard them when we needed to get over the hump...
...This was a huge game for us,” Merchant said. “Not only was it important to win on the road, but it got us over a hump that’s bothered us for a while. We haven’t beaten Colgate in five years...
...Germany's government wasn't on the agenda last week when Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac held a working dinner at a castle outside Berlin. Yet, perversely, Schröder's problems could help get relations between Paris and Berlin over a difficult hump. France has been nursing the Continent's most important relationship with a sense of wounded pride for the last few years. Not only did reunification make Germany the bigger partner, but the imminent prospect of a big-bang enlargement of the European Union threatened to put the Germans back...