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...close to home—domestic abuses, we’ll call them. You just want to go through life neglecting the pile of stegosaurus manure in your own backyard. That’s right: The Harvard Crimson. [1] “But wait!” you snivel. “That’s not even a mascot! That’s just a color!” Yeah, right, and Chris Brown is just Usher with an edge...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Prestige and Mobility: Macaroni Mascots | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

Basketball's all-time biggest draw retires to the golf links, the second-rate wannabes he turned into multimillionaires snivel about their economic hardship, and the league still finds ways to fill the tent. The NBA, which could sell swimsuits to Eskimos, has even put topspin on Jordan's departure: with the Chicago Bulls out to pasture, anyone can take the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New (and Old) NBA | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

Cold Pop & "Snivel." Feddersen's real coup in Viet Nam was the establishment of a private, self-contained, ship-to-site supply route-an exercise that by his count took 17 steps. First he sounded out a Saigon source who, for twelve cases of C rations, revealed the whereabouts of a warehouse that needed 100 shipping pallets. To get the pallets, Feddersen traded surplus steel cargo boxes (bummed from the Army) for enough lumber and nails to build 200 pallets. Another army company built the pallets for Feddersen, keeping 100 of them as payment. Feddersen then gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: King of Cumshaw | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Then, in 1959, Glenn resolutely set out to snivel his way into the toughest program of all: Project Mercury. He started with two handicaps: he lacked a college degree, and, at 37, he was considered to be an old man. But Glenn managed to get permission to go along as an "observer" with one prime candidate of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. When the candidate failed an early test, recalls Rainforth, "Johnny stepped up, chest high, and offered himself as a candidate. They took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Space: The Man | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

When we cry and moan and snivel about food shortages here in America, let us for God's sake remember that people like these also pray "Give us this day our daily bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1945 | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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