Word: sneakings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear physics. When I was in California, floods and mud slides were killing people. On the football field, catastrophe is a fumble." On the other hand, Callahan thinks, sporting events do give fans a lift. "I try not to get involved emotionally," he says, "but the feelings can sneak up on you. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about horse racing, but when I watched Secretariat come down the stretch at Belmont Park in 1973 to become the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, even I had chills down my spine...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...game a last, irresistible quirk of personality. This is known in the business as "the tweak. He proposed having Bally's enormously popular Pac Man, a dot-gobbling yellow disc, help the player by eating balloons on the clown's head. And so it came to pass, and a sneak preview was held at a local arcade. The results, after all of this R. & D., were disastrous. The game, renamed Kick, took too long to play, and thus took in too few quarters. To remedy this, the rate of fall of the balloons was slightly speeded...
Five-ft., 10-in. guard Mark Branch led all scorers with 21 points and somehow managed to sneak under the towering Harvard zone for a series of classy under-handed...
...average over the past ten years. All I'd like, in the words of Rodney Dangerfield, is "a little respect." I'd just like to watch football with my Uncle Irving some Sunday afternoon and have him ask me, "Becky, do you think they'll go for the quarterback sneak, the play action pass, or a long bomb?" and not have him explain each term...