Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kick flies into the middle of the penalty box. They cringe as Brown halfback Suzanne Bailey nails a header towards the far post. They shudder as Crimson back Amy Weinstein dashes across the goal in a desperate save attempt. They watch in horror as the ball trickles across the line...
Then they rewind it and play it back again. And again. Because if Weinstein had miraculously cleared the ball off the line, and the Crimson had held on for the final four minutes to tie the Bruins, Harvard (6-7-1 overall, 5-1 Ivy) would have won the Ivy League title. Instead, the Bruins (5-0-1 Ivy) nabbed their eighth straight crown...
...person who's calling usually doesn't realize that five people have answered the phone. He or she thinks there's just some funny echo in the phone line. So they say, for instance, "Can I speak to Jim?" and Jim says "This is he" and the rest of us slink away...
...should not imply that I possess a monopoly on phone-awkardness in my suite. My roommates have also created a problem or two for me, getting on the line in the middle of a call. My conversations are thus regularly punctuated by clicks and clacks of all sorts...
...politically left-leaning friends--the ones who have been urging me not to pay my phone bill--are rather suspicious of even the slightest interference on the phone. They take my roommates' discreet entrances and exits on the line to be indiscretions on the part of the FBI and CIA, which have nefariously compiled files on people even more innocuous than Harvard leftists...