Word: thunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Campbell dribbled across halfcourt, a thunk-thunk on the hardwood floor...
...Quakers were ready for this. Penn's Tim Krug met Campbell near the basket and blocked his shot before it got close to the rim, and I remember watching the ball slowly bounce along the ground out of bounds, thunk.....thunk...thunk..thunkthunkthunk...
...wouldda thunk that a cadre of business-minded mercenaries would emerge from intellectually fertile Yard? The field of consulting is a waste of time for both intelligent individuals and for the society which hires them. If businesses can't run their own show and need to hire Harvard grads to tell them what to do, perhaps they shouldn't be in business...
...understand that the vault is a brutish thing. The poles, especially the ones Bubka uses, are as stiff as lampposts, and their throat-catching bend is the product of extraordinary speed and gristle. Bubka's virtue, or one of them, anyway, is that he makes the transformation from visceral thunk at the jump's base to airy finesse at its apogee look effortless. At the last second, he offers the bar a crisp, flapping salute with his palms and fingertips. "It's an unbelievable feeling," says Bubka. And from the spectator's vantage, it's an unbelievable sight...
Such a scene seemed a distant dream only two years ago. The Crimson was coming off 5-8-2 (2-4-1 Ivy) and 6-7-2 (3-4-0) seasons in 1992 and 1993, respectively. Who'd have thunk that in two years, Harvard would be wearing the crown...