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...combination from rivals Cornell and Princeton left Harvard reeling at 4-7 in Division One play--good enough for a firm fourth in the Ivy Division and 11th overall. Harvard--which needs to slip into the top eight to qualify for post-season play--has now lost five straight ECAC contests since its 4-3 win over UNH on December...
Aided by six straight clutch free throws by sophomore guard Calvin Dixon and 26 points by freshman Joe Carrabino, the cagers slip-slided to victory over a team that had twice conquered them last year...
Vellucci, who celebrated the 25th anniversary of his inauguration as a city councilor this week, said he had "watched the power of government slowly slip away" over the years...
...Coma, the bestselling novel that became a hit movie, greedy physicians have a nifty racket going: in order to acquire valuable organs for transplant surgery, they slip patients into unconsciousness, then declare them irreversibly braindamaged. If a recent television program in Britain were to be believed, Coma is not so far off the mark. The show, part of the BBC'S Panorama program, asked the question Transplants: Are the Donors Really Dead? The shocking answer: maybe...
...have gone out of their way to find Americanisms. "Hoity-toity," "WATS line," "umpteen," "pinhead," and the verb to "off" (kill) are all defined; the editors do, however, miss a couple, such as "dive," as in a bad or dangerous restaurant or bar, and "hyper." Occasional usage notes do slip into an unpleasant pedantic style: "Careful writers use dived rather than dove in the past tense." But even less frequent notes on the origin or phrases turn up interesting information; the term "poobah," for example, a person who holds many offices at once, comes from a character in Gilbert...