Word: humping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet its budget. The orchestra's creditors are being generous, not pressing it to pay its bills. Nevertheless, this may be a crucial season for the orchestra. If its subscribers and ticket sales continue to increase, as they have for the past few years, it may be over the hump. If they do not, if Philharmonia audiences decrease as Symphony audiences have, the Philharmonia may be just a pleasant memory of music, dying with a dying fall...
...handsome $40,000 to the total, but it wasn't the money that pleased him most. "It's the title," he said. "It means that I can enter any tournament I want without qualifying for the next ten years. I think I'm over the hump now. You'll be seeing...
...intentional, and they egg the audience to participate in an "in" joke, but the self-consciousness they enforce and the sniggering communal sensibility they impose lay heavily on the play. The emotional changes which should animate the third act are lost; the tension which should carry us over the hump of the comedy-only tautness can stave off boredom in humor-is flaccid...
Trailed by Alfred, Sam comes running down to borrow a box of matches to light the incense and the candles. He hurries back up, but Alfred remains with the policeman. After a bit he tries to hump the cop's leg and is given a kick and a lecture...
...birth the infant was limp. She died with severe respiratory distress at the age of nine hours. The infant weighed 5 Ibs. She had a sloping forehead, poorly differentiated, low-set ears, a broad nose with prominent bridge, and bilateral epicanthic folds. A slight fatty hump was noted at the nape of the neck. Both hands had simian creases. The left hand had four fingers (thumb and three fingers); a rudimentary sixth finger was attached to the right hand. The right foot showed a slight deformity. A roentgenogram taken after death showed eleven pair of thin ribs, absence of part...