Word: scrum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actual public opening, this week. Rarely has the idea of artistic heroism been so conspicuously tied to the ascent of the social mountain. But now all this will change. The general public, one may predict, will see very little. Its members will struggle for a peek through a milling scrum of backs; will be swept at full contemplation speed (about 30 seconds per image) through the galleries; will find their hope to experience Van Gogh's art in its true quality thwarted. Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy...
Hepatitis B, also known as scrum hepatitis, usually strikes adults, can cause cirrhosis, and is more severe than hepatitis A. Chronic carriers of the virus have a greater than normal chance of developing liver disease and cancer of the liver...
...Elis marched back down the field but the Crimson line held at its own goal. According to Harvard Coach Martyn Kingston, this was even more remarkable, because the Crimson was down a player. (One of Harvard's biggest scrum players, Keith Cooper, had been ejected for fighting earlier in the context...
...kind of man that I would be, would be a rugby scrum half, cause I'd whip it out and she'd whip...
...play runs quickly and roughly. The ball comes out of a rope less tug-of-war of human bodies, the scrum half whips the ball out to his backs, who advance in a wedge, passing the ball along just before falling to on opponent's tackle. Sometimes the backs kick the ball; other times they get tackled, drop the ball, the forwards fight over it and the play starts again...