Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that time, Harvard Co-Captain Ralph James, who was a last-minute scratch last night due to a shoulder injury sustained Saturday against Vermont, might be ready for action...
ECAC Men's Hockey Team W L T PTS Cornell 3 0 2 8 HARVARD 4 1 0 8 St. Lawrence 4 1 0 8 Clarkson 3 0 2 7 Princeton 3 2 0 6 Vermont 2 2 1 5 Rensellear 2 2 0 4 Colgate 1 2 2 4 Army 1 3 1 3 Yale 1 2 1 3 Brown 0 3 1 1 Dartmouth...
Whether they suffer from Type I or Type II, diabetics must be educated and motivated to manage their disease on a daily basis. "Yet ironically," notes University of Vermont endocrinologist Dr. Edward Horton, president of the American Diabetes Association, "our health-care system does not pay for education." That, experts agree, needs to change. As the U.S. population ages rapidly, diabetes, which already costs the nation $20 billion a year, is expected to become increasingly common. And since rising affluence and obesity go hand in hand, the disease can be expected to take root and flourish in developing countries, where...
Conversations do that in Victories (Henry Holt; 298 pages; $19.95), Higgins' maliciously funny new novel, set not in his usual Massachusetts courthouse corridors but in hardscrabble Vermont farm country. A slippery statehouse politician named Ed Cobb tries to persuade Henry Briggs, a retired major- league relief pitcher, to run for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Briggs, a born-and-bred Vermonter and no fool, knows this is like taking a high dive into a damp dishrag. But they talk. And talk. And Briggs and his wife Lillian argue. And argue. She's an earache. When he was in baseball...
...about that talk, though? Higgins, who spent three weeks a summer in Vermont as a boy, hating every minute, flags a Vermont accent like this: "You're working for another man, you're liable, put things off. Not go through the barn today, make sure everything's all right." Which is the same way he signals a Massachusetts tough-guy accent, with that glottal comma in place of the missing "to." Is this realistic? Of course not. Does it work? Sure, because it's only a signal, to tell the reader's ear to supply an accent...