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Word: jumbos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Cook is an enthusiastic collector of oxymora, among them such alleged contradictions as airline food, jumbo shrimp and postal service. But Cook, chairman of the Big Eight accounting firm of Deloitte Haskins & Sells, bristles when wags tell him about the latest one: business ethics. The unamused Cook maintains that most business people can still be trusted. Yet he admits, "We have all been embarrassed by the events that make the Wall Street Journal read more like the Police Gazette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having It All, Then Throwing It Away | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...with two on and two outs in the top of the eighth, Crimson first baseman Rich Renninger--who struck out with the bases loaded in the sixth--broke the game open, lifting a fastball from Jumbo pitcher Kerry Callaghan well over the right-field fence...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Batsmen Hose Down Jumbos, 11-4 | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...Marchok also had control problems, issuing six walks. His two wild pitches brought home Jumbo baserunners in the fourth and seventh innings and trimmed Harvard's 5-2 lead...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Batsmen Hose Down Jumbos, 11-4 | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

Inning two was a Jumbo disaster, as three walks, two errors and a pair of passed balls allowed Harvard to widen...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Batswomen Sweep Double-Dip | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...Mumbo Jumbo says: "No one says a novel...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

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