Word: sheepishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the loss of its top five players, among them three All-Americans, the Harvard men's tennis team has been reduced from undisputed East Coast powerhouse to sheepish pretenders to the Eastern throne...
With the loss of its top five players, among them three All-Americans, the Harvard men's tennis team has been reduced from undisputed East Coast powerhouse to sheepish pretenders to the Eastern throne...
...hand rises high in the group of high school students gathered around a long Union table. Another follows. Then, tentatively, a third and a fourth. Sheepish grins all around. A few confessions. "Well...
...little later, at a Tomba press conference, the second -- and most successful -- Filipino athlete in Winter Games history giggles with unstoppable delight at everything the champion says. Teruel is thinking now, he says, of trying for the Summer Games. "I know it's unrealistic," he adds with a sheepish smile, "but when something's unrealistic, I really...
Turning up late for a key diplomatic meeting is bad form. But when British Defense Secretary Tom King and his Russian counterpart, Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, finally popped into 10 Downing Street last month, their sheepish explanation took bosses John Major and Boris Yeltsin by surprise. Seems they'd been up till all hours sampling a precious case of 1939 Crimean champagne. Major exclaimed at the extravagance, but Yeltsin just seemed to feel left out. Said he: "Good God! I thought all of that vintage had been drunk by Khrushchev...