Word: benching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other panelist complained that women didn't aspire to the supreme Court bench, and Mrs. Friedan straightened. Tapping the table with a forefinger bearing an enormous ring and straining to make us understand, she said, "Aspire. Exactly. Adults ask little boys what they want to be when they grow up. They ask little girls where they got that pretty dress...
...hander Jim Sisserson, second team all-Ivy last year, allowed only five touches while winning three bouts. Crimson captain Rick Kolombatovich's match with Charles Wertheimer was a crucial one in the final round. Leading 3-2, Kolombatovich lost the struggle for the next touch on what the Harvard bench considered a bad call by the director...
Harvard coach Edo Marion predicted before the match that the Crimson would have to crush Penn in the first round to win. He was right. Harvard isn't the kind of team that slashes back after initial defeats. The Harvard bench was already gloomy after the sabre round, which the Crimson expected to sweep...
Captain Rick Kolombatovich quickly tied the score, 2-2, with a suspenseful 5-4 foil triumph over Mike Morgan, in the next bout, Penn all-Ivy Steve Permut beat Harvard all-Ivy Tom Musliner, 5-2, unnerving Musliner and the Harvard bench with his aggressive attacks. A quick lefthander with an unorthodox style. Permut looks like a caricature of Harvard's Chuck Lovell. Penn's Russ Goodman clipped Lovell...
...mission "to slay the black dragon with the 88 gleaming teeth." To create the "proper atmosphere," he has the lights dimmed until he is little more than a silhouette on stage. A tall, hulking figure with a luxuriant growth of swept-winged black hair, he almost leaps off the bench to hammer home a fistful of crashing chords. In more reflective moods, he coaxes the music along with the suspenseful air of a man defusing a time bomb, then counterattacks with a dazzling flurry of runs and leaping crescendoes. The black dragon never has a chance...