Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dunces, they, the Red Raiders realized something was up. Off the draw, the two defenders near Weisbrod took offto block Melrose at the blue line. And thereinlies the rub...
After more instruction -- "Don't pet them around the blowhole; avoid their eyes" -- and a petting session during which we rub the dolphins' rubbery heads and bellies, we walk to a beach to begin our 20-minute swim. As we enter the water, George DelMonte of the San Francisco area tells me that the chance to swim with dolphins was a principal reason that he and his girlfriend chose to stay at the Hyatt. Encumbered by life jackets that serve mainly to prevent the overeager from pursuing animals to the depths, we flounder about as the young dolphins carve intricate...
...there's the rub. A coach is expected to win at Notre Dame. Win a lot -- while still putting academics first and observing the NCAA rules of conduct. "If you keep the rules," the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, then Notre Dame's president, told Holtz at his final pre-hiring interview, "I will give you five years. If you ever cut corners, you will be out of here by midnight." "We like to win," says the school's current president, the Rev. Edward A. ("Monk") Malloy, who as a Notre Dame undergraduate was a varsity basketball player. As a measure...
...star can't sit still, and the audience can't get enough of him. On the guest couch, rap groups rub elbows with Hollywood stars. Johnny Carson's newest challenger has grabbed a young audience by dusting off the stodgy talk format and holding a weeknightly party. Be there or be square...
...Students say love can wait," proclaims the headline, which goes on to chronicle the stale and dispassionate narratives of several Boston-area undergraduate couples who, although "their romance has lasted longer than many marriages," and who "love each other, or at least [and here's the rub!] like each other a lot," have agreed to a mutual parting of the ways at the end of their undergraduate careers...