Word: humping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mentally, there is a big difference between two and three and three and two," Snowden said. "Getting over the .500 hump is important...
...terms of the actual outcomes of the competitions, what is perhaps more important in getting the Crimson over the proverbial hump is the crop of incoming freshman players...
...Angeles. Within 11 minutes he had alerted California crews, who placed three locomotives in the path to take the crunch. No lives were lost. Locomotives that used to sit for days waiting for loaded cars are now turned around in hours. Empty cars are shuttled like airplanes. Huge "hump" operations like Conrail's Selkirk Yard, near Albany, New York, can sort 3,200 freight cars a day and send out trains to 70 destinations...
...world's largest indoor ski slope has no up-close competition from nature -- and that explains the excitement over it. SSAWS, which stands for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Snow, is a $366.9 million building shaped like a giant mechanical centipede whose highest hump reaches 25 stories. On opening day two weeks ago, hundreds of summer skiers, eager to escape muggy Tokyo, lined up for the first runs down the slopes. Regular, outdoor Japanese slopes are notoriously crowded -- and SSAWS is likely to be as well when it is fully operational. However, SSAWS is only 30 min. from Tokyo Station...
...Crimson still couldn't get over the hump, however, as it finished third in its four-team pool. Only the top two teams advanced to the second day of play...