Word: bench
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson players, heads down and drenched in sweat and water, retreat to the bench. The sun glares down at them. It has been a long, hot day here at Byrd Stadium. Sixty-six minutes of grinding nails, teeth and sticks with not a cloud in the sky to protect the players from the tiring rays...
Junior defender Kelly Morrison wipes away the tears that have welled up in her eyes as they slide down her sunburnt skin. Junior Sarah Downing drags her stick along the grass. And there at the end of the bench, alone, eyes closed, in a crouch, is Co-Captain Liz Berkery...
...thrown her Gatorade bottle down. She has tossed her stick indignantly under the bench. And she sits alone, trying to come to grips with the fact that she has played in her last game ever for the Crimson...
...during the playoffs, the team lost its captain and hope for the future, Reggie Lewis. The 27-year-old forward collapsed during a % postseason game at Boston Garden. Lewis, who is the Celtics' leading scorer, bravely returned to the game before weakening and finally heading for the bench for good. A few days later, a team physician delivered a disturbing diagnosis: Lewis had "focal cardiomyopathy," an ailment that damages an area of the heart and causes it to beat irregularly. Hank Gathers of Loyola Marymount University, another celebrated young basketball player, died from cardiomyopathy in 1990. Lewis said he would...
When we sit on this park bench talking to each other," he says, "we don't put in little commas and colons and exclamation points. We don't need them, because we hear it." Merwin folds his sunglasses on his lap. "The closer words get to poetry, the more the spoken language is there. And that's not punctuated...