Word: humping
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...ourselves in a position,” said Harvard coach Frank Sullivan. “We couldn’t guard them when we needed to get over the hump...
...This was a huge game for us,” Merchant said. “Not only was it important to win on the road, but it got us over a hump that’s bothered us for a while. We haven’t beaten Colgate in five years...
...Germany's government wasn't on the agenda last week when Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac held a working dinner at a castle outside Berlin. Yet, perversely, Schröder's problems could help get relations between Paris and Berlin over a difficult hump. France has been nursing the Continent's most important relationship with a sense of wounded pride for the last few years. Not only did reunification make Germany the bigger partner, but the imminent prospect of a big-bang enlargement of the European Union threatened to put the Germans back...
...water. "Be careful." Thus it was with some trepidation that I turned off the highway and followed the signs along a strip of crumbling bitumen. I passed through the gates of a temple and found the tallest palm trees I've ever seen, jutting skyward from a lush hump of jungle-covered earth in the middle of a weed-strewn lake. It looked like one of southern Thailand's tropical isles had been picked up and dropped into the middle of a paddy...
...We’re going to work hard and we’re going to break our hump to get Shannon elected,” promised Capuano, who is running uncontested for election to his third congressional term...