Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most hyperactive kid on the team. If I was playing shortstop, I'd dive for a ground ball to the first baseman. ("I mean, it's fun playing baseball with just you," Calvin told Hobbes. "We get to do everything.") If I was playing left field, I'd sprint to cover second base on a bunt down the third-base line. (I'd just rather run around," Calvin told Suzie.) If I was playing catcher--wait, I said I was hyperactive, not stupid...
...stops at Wellesley at 12:30 a.m., and everyone clears out. Most of the men who get off have bags with them that probably contain a change of clothing. Big drops of rain pelt the exiting passengers. Women sprint off as soon as they...
...Princeton's strength is the sprint," Co-Captain Jill Hutchinson said. "We have been swimming less yardage in practice, though, and this break will make us more competitive in the shorter distances...
...came at a time of increased vulnerability for , AT&T. Although Ma Bell still carries 70% of the U.S.'s long-distance traffic (down from 90% five years ago), it has been fighting a rearguard action to keep its customers from defecting to its feisty competitors, MCI and US Sprint. The glitch simultaneously deflated AT&T's multimillion-dollar "reliability" advertising campaign and handed its competitors a once-in- a-career sales pitch. "An important message to everyone whose telephone is the lifeline of their business," began a print ad rushed out by US Sprint after the breakdown. "Always have...
...operators made matters worse on Monday by refusing to give stranded customers instructions for calling via MCI or Sprint -- a standing order that was reversed 3 1/2 hours after the breakdown began, too late to do East Coast businesses any good. To help make amends, AT&T announced late last week that it had asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to offer long-distance discounts to all callers on Valentine's Day. But the phone company's aura of infallibility will not be so easily repaired...