Word: backups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future assassin campaigns at Harvard, though, Lim's skill promises only to improve. Whenever he suspects he is being followed, he calls for backup or, alternatively, just runs away. His own natural anxious tendencies prove essential. "Look over one shoulder every four steps. Look over the other shoulder after another four steps," he warns. Everyone had better watch out at least this much for this deadly rookie...
...junior backup catcher, who didn't enter Harvard's wild-beyond-words 18-16 win until he pinch-ran for Keck in the top of the seventh, figured in three bang-bang plays in the late innings, helping Harvard avoid the embarrassment of blowing a 12-run lead to snatch a win in Friday's opener...
...junior backup catcher, who didn't enterHarvard's wild-beyond-words 18-16 win until hepinch-ran for Keck in the top of the seventh,figured in three bang-bang plays in the lateinnings, helping Harvard avoid the embarrassmentof blowing a 12-run lead to snatch a win inFriday's opener...
...been known to suffer crippling bouts of stage fright. Just last summer, at a guest appearance with Jimmy Buffet, he had to be coaxed into not bolting from the stage. "When [the idea of a tour] was first suggested to me," says a member of his current backup band, "I wondered if Brian could even get through a 20-minute set, let alone a 40-minute set, let alone two 40-minute sets." Nevertheless, in the days leading up to the tour, the mood among Wilson's colleagues, handlers and friends seems to be one of nervous optimism, a collective...
...There was only about a minute of dead air when we switched from our main transmitter to our backup," Chen said. "Some of the outlying areas had poor reception but the reception actually improved in the Cambridge and Somerville areas...