Word: squeakly
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Welcome to the W.N.B.A., the Women's National Basketball Association, or the N.B.A.'s baby sister. On the court, the sneakers squeak with the same urgency as they do in the N.B.A., the coaches yell, "Why isn't that a foul?" at the refs, and the players get fined for roughhousing--though the $500 recently assessed against Nancy Lieberman-Cline of the Phoenix Mercury for holding Jamila Wideman of the Los Angeles Sparks by the neck equals what Dennis Rodman spends in a year for eyeliner...
...outside, the new strain of mice looked a little, well, lumpy. But when scientists peeled back their fur and skin, what had seemed like extra baggage in the shoulders and hips turned out to be pure muscle--two to three times the muscle mass of the average pip-squeak rodent. These were not your ordinary genetically engineered laboratory mice; these were Mighty Mice...
Then there's the most baffling advice of all: Talk to it, in a calm, firm voice, of course. Supposing I could muster anything more impressive than a hoarse squeak, what exactly would I talk to it about? No one has ever suggested any topics of mutual interest to a middle-aged urban female and a 600-lb. free-ranging ursid. The Endangered Species Act, perhaps, and how the Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily erased about 4,000 species from the protected list last February? "Uh, I know I forgot to send in my Sierra Club dues, but, believe...
This fact was hinted at in the HYPs, when Harvard beat Yale soundly, 21-35, but could only squeak by Princeton, 26-29. And at Heps, the Crimson could only muster sixth place, behind both the Tigers and the Elis...
However, following a timeout by coach Ihsan Gurdal and several substitutions, the Crimson managed to squeak out a 15-13 win. Harvard hung on to win the final two games by a score of 15-13 in each but not after having to come from behind in both games...