Word: sandwiched
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...past 5o years involved none other than the current senior U.S. Senator from the Bay State. Young Ted Kennedy '54 (but actually '56) didn't feel up for a Spanish exam and had a buddy take it for him. Only Ted decided to spend the morning munching on a sandwich in a popular Harvard Square eatery, was recognized, convicted, and sent to Hyannisport for some extra beach time...
...most games, money is a way of keeping score. To Rose, it is just another stat. He is competitive in all things. "How come I'm not in the lineup?" he asks at Manhattan's Stage Delicatessen, looking up from a menu in despair that no sandwich is named for him. "Reggie Jackson ... Tom Seaver... Susan Anton. What kind of year has Susan Anton had?" It has never been the money. "I led the league in hits in 1965," Rose says, "and made $12,500." When Rose became a free agent after the 1978 season and accepted...
...Kroc are rare, companies continually create new heroes. The members of IBM's "Hundred Percent Club," who have met their annual sales quotas, become office stars. Likewise, the McDonald's franchisee who cooked up the idea for the fast-food chain's bestselling "Egg McMuffin" breakfast sandwich in 1972 found his way into Ray Kroc's autobiography, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's, and has become part of company lore...
Many other scientists were understandably cautious. In 1975 Berkeley Physicist P. Buford Price also thought he had found a monopole. Looking for cosmic rays, Price and three colleagues developed a multilayered plastic sandwich to record the tracks left by subatomic particles and launched the contraption over Iowa in a helium balloon. During three days, the particle detector recorded 75 hits, one much different from the rest. When Price published a paper claiming to have found a monopole "candidate," the scientific community's excitement soon gave way to skepticism. In the end, Price admitted he had been a bit hasty...
...Argentines also claim two Falkland dependencies, South Georgia and the South Sandwich islands, some 800 and 1,300 miles to the east. Both places are uninhabited except for a few British Antarctic scientists on South Georgia...