Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will get on the telephone and start apologizing to certain loyal alumni whose children have been rejected. "It's an exciting time," he says, working up a smile. It is an expression familiar to anyone who has watched baseball managers approaching the cutoff date, politicians on the stump and admissions directors in the spring...
...years, British Cameraman Peter Scoones has had an unlikely dream. A dedicated scuba diver, he wanted to photograph a live coelacanth (pronounced seal-ah-kanlh), the ancient, almost legendary, stump-legged fish which once was believed to have died out soon after the dinosaurs. Now this paparazzo of the deep has nailed his prey. Last week Scoones released rare color photographs of one of these "living fossils," swimming contentedly for his camera in the Indian Ocean off the Comoro Islands near the Malagasy Republic...
Wertlieb and Drs. Sultan Mohiuddin, Bruce Nadler and Michael Mamakos toiled for six hours. They removed damaged tissue from both stump and leg (including nearly 5 in. of bone), inserted a 15-in. stainless steel rod into the thigh bone as a support, then reconnected an artery and two veins. Heartened by the surgery's initial success, an exultant Wertlieb said after the operation: "It was a New Year's Eve high without a drink...
...founder and president of World-Wide Sires Inc. of Hanford, Calif., Willard Clark has an occupation that would stump the old What's My Line? panel: he sells bull semen. Acting as a broker for nine artificial-insemination cooperatives, Clark ships the frozen semen of prize U.S. bulls (mainly Holsteins) to more than 40 countries, including the Soviet Union. Now Clark is looking to China, where he also hopes to hog the market for swine semen. His business is only seven years old, and he expects sales this year to reach $5 million...
...Massachusetts this fall, to endorse Ed Brooke, campaign for Ed Brooke and identify Ed Brooke as the leading black politician in the country. Coretta King and Rev. Jesse Jackson have been here, State Rep. Barney Frank' endorsed Brooke, and State Rep. Saundra Graham has sacrificed her own campaign to stump for Brooke. Tsongas has countered, bringing black and women leaders into the state on his own behalf. It's not that the black vote in Massachusetts has historically been anything to write home about--just that some feel it could be. It's the one factor that can balance...