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Although salsa’s burst in popularity during the mid- to late 1970s was organic, feeding off the hip young Latino audiences from the Bronx and Uptown, Harlow helped it blow up by taking a major producing role in Leon Gast’s vérité concert film “Our Latin Thing.”

Patrick Bamford has shrugged off the hip problem that curtailed his gametime last Saturday.

Furman, which started its final drive pinned at its own 11, had advanced to the VMI 24 when a third-down snap bounced off the hip of Ryan DeLucca, who was in motion behind the line of scrimmage.

If there’s one thing Broad can’t stand, it’s lower-order batsmen swinging the bat, so he switches to the short stuff, whereupon Cornwall flicks him off the hip for a comfy single.

As does Warner at backward square to deny Denly a run off the hip.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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