Word: humping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colors of their country, or their company sponsor, the front runners do not acknowledge the cheering crowd. Conservative and calculating, they monitor their pace and fluid levels with the detachment of a boilerman checking fuel guages. Clumps of serious runners follow, dedicated amateurs clustered behind a pacer. Then the hump of the bell curve runs by, the anonymous pack one standard deviation from the mean. After that there are no more clumps but, rather, a constant stream, preventing you from crossing the street without careful timing and a quick dash...
...crippling symptoms of osteoporosis have become almost synonymous with old age. The dowager's hump, the loss of height, the painful and often debilitating fractures of the spine and hip nearly always occur in elderly women after menopause (as well as in a smaller number of older men). And that age group has been the focus of prevention and treatment efforts...
Wigglesworth D was larger, more boisterous and "tended to sponsor the hump-night parties," he recalls...