Word: bench
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When someone on Harvard coach Joe Walsh's squad hits a sacrifice fly, bunts a runner over to third, or even hits a grounder to the right side of the infield with a runner at second and less than two outs, everyone on the bench leaves the dugout and walks halfway up the first baseline to congratulate the hitter...
...aides two weeks ago to prepare a series of speeches on foreign policy, economics, crime and values that make clear where he differs from the incumbent President. The first came last Friday, when Dole referred to Clinton 22 times, lambasting him for his "liberal appointments" to the federal bench and promising to "appoint judges who respect the rule of law," who "understand that society is not to blame for crime, criminals...
...those will be that Anderson will be able to unload his bench, a move that every coach wants to do but few can. If the lead gets up to 20 goals, there's no need to leave in the starting team...
...Nets was particularly instructive, because while most of the 20,000 fans had come to see Jordan, Rodman and Pippen, they ended up seeing an awful lot of Randy Brown, James Edwards and Dickey Simpkins. At one point in the fourth quarter, with Jordan and Pippen on the bench, the Nets closed to within nine points. Coach Phil Jackson sent to the rescue...Jud Buechler. The funny thing was, it worked: Buechler went back-door for a basket, and the Bulls were again in control...
...chief secular saint (there are no male contenders), on a line of products for sale. A posthumous endorsement, to be sure; but relic hunting, by definition, has to be posthumous. If the Virgin Mary had died surrounded by Chinese soup tureens and minor Hellenistic antiquities, instead of the wooden bench (workshop of St. Joseph, estimate 20 to 30 copper pieces) and the simple tin cup that presumably furnished her abode in Jerusalem, the rush for pious souvenirs would not have been greater...