Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five weeks of practice, almost every body had worked out his own signals. But since it was impossible not to tramp, instinctively, on the brakes when the driver ahead began his alarming arm flapping, the accident toll was diminishing. In the face of the sternest handicaps, down-East individualism was still proving...
...considered] a drunkard and a spendthrift . . . The English girls fall all over the G.I.s . . . You've never seen so many pickups and camp-follower girls that tramp up and down the streets in this area. You have no idea how we American people and you people back home are talked about. All of us are the objects of remarks which are certainly nervy after what we've done for them...
...skeptical of just how useful interviews can be. Even experienced admissions office personnel cannot always learn much about a boy in half an hour. And Alumni are less competent. Some of them tend to give a poor rating to a shy, sensitive boy; others think every athlete is a tramp. These personal value judgments cannot help but be reflected in alumni interviewing reports but the feeling in the Admissions office is that some news is better than no news...
...leave her shattered hulk to rust! Long has she rocked below, And many a fish has swum to see The grandma of the "Mo'; Above her piles the coastal tramp And plops the dinghy's oar;--The Yankee Cheese Box on a Raft Shail rout the Reb no more...
...right, two strong men of the Tiger backfield, Kazmaier (42) (with ball), and Davison (34) (with scowl) tramp their way toward the Crimson defense. This end run was good for eight yards...