Word: benching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second game, Harvard went to its bench and juggled its offense around a bit. Instead of Hyderi setting by himself, he switched off the duties with sophomore Evan Beachy, depending on who was playing the back...
Other key factors in the second game included Harvard's blocking, which began to show life and took away Yale's short hits that pestered the home team in the first game. Also, some of the players off the bench--such as freshman Kalon Morris and sophomore Jim Rothschild--continued the Crimson's spiking success...
...actually occurred on a dead ball. With 1:50 left to play in the game and all four seniors on the court, Delaney-Smith sent in four substitutions. As Amy Reinhard '96, Katy Davis '96, and co-captains Elizabeth Gettelman '96 and Elizabeth Proudfit '96 walked toward the bench for the final time at Lavietes Pavilion, they were saluted by the home crowd with a standing ovation...
...Buchanan recalls in his memoirs, "The whole time out, I stayed close to the Vice President. When he relieved himself in the bushes, I stepped up alongside and did the same, even though we caddies were supposed to go off separately or wait until we got back to the bench area.") A month later Buchanan was newly installed as Nixon's young factotum, writing speeches, preparing briefing books, supervising the In box, all in preparation for Nixon's presidential run two years later. Nixon became a political father to Buchanan, manipulative rather than autocratic, shrewd rather than certain, pragmatic rather...
...receives an invitation to join an organization that offers vitamin discounts for the mature may resent it as a harbinger of that dreaded day when he takes his wife's hand during an evening stroll through the park and overhears some college kid on a nearby bench saying, "Isn't that cute...