Word: humped
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...matter of us playing the game we know how to play," Prasse-Freeman said. "It was a disappointment that we didn't get over the hump...
That kind of warfare is one sort of electoral politics that Gore enjoys and excels at. When the campaign heats up and it's time for fiery words, he says, "then I get over the hump and into gear. And really relish it." He has an ability to exploit opponents' weaknesses and craft policy nuggets that double as political grenades. He doesn't mind going right to the line, or even across it. In 1991, in a presidential campaign, he said during a rare unguarded moment that you have to be willing to "rip the heart and lungs...
After going over the various supplements my mother had seen advertised in women's magazines, I repeated the conclusion of Dr. Steven Goldstein, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University Medical Center: "Eighty percent of women who experience hot flashes are over the hump within 18 to 24 months. They could get away with taking hormones for that period without an increased breast-cancer risk." My mother and I finally reached an agreement. If she was still determined to try alternatives, she would take them in moderation until they were better studied and better understood...
...never felt like I needed to be validated. I knew that as long as I worked hard, wrote well, did my own research, busted my hump to look up facts and figures, no one could make me feel like I shouldn't be doing what it is I'm doing. Not that people haven't tried, but I don't validate myself based on what other people think. I don't do this because I try to be someone else...
Brown, which had had close losses to several Ivy opponents but could never quite get over the hump, finally pulled off an upset, beating Harvard on Friday at the Pizzitola Center in Providence...