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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little scary. In many of its losses last year, the Crimson played pretty well but just couldn't get over the hump...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: It's Not Last Year | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

Nelson, who wants to run for the Senate, believes in the "block grant" concept of giving hump sums to states, but that Congress will take, too much away when it turns over the keys to Medicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governors Speak Out on Medicare | 9/26/1995 | See Source »

...Santa Fe in chains after an agonizing mountain trek. The novel's plan is not much different, in fact, from that of Lonesome Dove or Streets of Laredo: an incredibly difficult journey that no prudent soul would have undertaken, with a psychopathic Comanche (Blue Duck in Lonesome Dove, Buffalo Hump here) skulking in the shadows to pick off stragglers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CLIMBING THE FOOTHILL | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...rough calculation, there are about three decades of imprudence and dusty commotion to get through before they become the leathery, intermittently shrewd men of Lonesome Dove. The prequel hasn't really completed its job. Obviously a postprequel or two is required before the central novel can decently begin. Buffalo Hump still lurks. McCrae seems about to marry, though surely not if the sly heartbreaker in the general store is thinking clearly. And the great-grandlitters of pigs not yet born and rattlers not yet hatched must colonize the town of Lonesome Dove, a backwater that no one, least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CLIMBING THE FOOTHILL | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...grand scheme of things, getting over the hump from a mediocre team to a good one is exactly what Harvard wants...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: M. Basketball Challenges Lehigh | 12/10/1994 | See Source »

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