Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have much beer this year, but he'll have plenty of platitudes. These meetings can be very weird. Everyone's usually trying to make a good impression, and if excess amiability makes you want to puke, I suggest you bring a vomit bag. You'll be asked to stand up and introduce yourself, just like when you first started school, 14 years ago. Only now you might say, "I'm Hank from Pittsburgh and I wanna get laid." That's always good for a laugh. If you want to make things interesting, tell them you are President of an organization...
...Stoughton. By now I was really desperate. I would fail my exams and all that frantic studying would be as useless as the entire first semester. After shivering by myself for an hour, I finally gave in and woke up a friend across the hall who sent me to stand, shaking, under the shower until the exam. I took it in a complete stupor, barely aware of what I was writing. I begged my section leader for mercy, staggered home, slept the rest of the day, took my third exam and collapsed. Typically, neither the UHS nurse nor my proctor...
...stand, luggage in hand, at the threshold of your college career, at the steps of your freshman dorm. Always prepared, you found out early about those legendary assholes who show up early and grab the single. Beat them at their own game...
...have to take one of the Language Placement tests, you stand a decent chance of flunking it. After all--if you were any good in your language, you would have gotten that 560 or better on your Achievement Tests. Harvard has a basic language requirement, and if you screw up the test, it'll cost you four hours a South Africa question, it is possible the Corporation may listen a little more carefully...
...their races. Frequently they would warm up only to end up waiting in a cold concrete room for 30 minutes before the start of their events. Said Ron Davis, 22, a 400-meter man: "The Soviet athletes are used to being told to take off their sweats, then stand in the wind for ten minutes. We aren't. Maybe we have to get used...