Word: benching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four hours without getting a single offer. "I was wearing jeans, which were dirty, and I was carrying my backpack, so I guess I didn't look right," she says. Down to her last $7, she bought a doughnut for dinner and spent the night on a park bench. Unable to afford even a cheap miniskirt, she sat down in an alley and pulled out her spare blue jeans. After carefully marking off a line just below the crotch, she cut off both pant legs using the saw blade of her Swiss Army knife, a gift from...
They are gone, we know that, as all seniors eventually must fade from the bench. But last night's performance was the first time that this year's blueliners announced their intention to wave the Harvard banner of defensive supremacy with all the authority of those that went before them, and you can't downplay the significance of such a statement...
...When we were up 35-12 with four or five minutes left, I almost started crying on the bench because knew we were going to win," he says. "[Dartmouth] is a good program and we're just beating the snot out of them. We had never beaten them [in my days here...
...From Lab Bench to Dinner Table...
...final whistle, the response of both bench and crowd was to storm the field, and even though the strongest source of light by game's end was the "0:00" on the scoreboard clock, an indelible image had been emblazoned into the Harvard record books...