Word: dribblee
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They come by truck from all over Europe. Some arrive concealed in frozen sheep carcasses from Belgium. Others come hidden under the fenders of shiny new cars from West Germany. Still others arrive concealed within the false bottoms of crates filled with alarm clocks from Czechoslovakia. The hidden cargo is...
The booters refused to be content with only three goals, and in the next 10 minutes Acorn just barely missed two more scoring bids, one a weak dribble that got past the goalie but missed the net.
Although he continued writing, his later work was largely mediocre. Perhaps it was his own last years he unwittingly foresaw in 1948: "Most lives," he said, "dribble away like piss in the dust."
In pursuit of the liberal arts ideal, Harvard has bitten into the pomegranate of knowledge and spit the seeds into a dozen far-flung bureaucratic boxes, letting most of the juice dribble away. Ec 10 pokes tentatively into the other boxes from time to time, but Harvard's departmentalization won...
But where does Harvard fit into this two-tiered scheme? Another 9-5 record and third-place finish always sounds reasonable, but it doesn't have to be. If letdowns against the weaklings can be avoided, and if an occasional repeat of Saturday can be thrown in there somewhere (preferably...