Word: benching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kohler had been suffering from leg cramps for much of the game, and had to leave at one point because of the pain. Yale's fans wouldn't let up, and turned up their harassment as Kohler took his seat on the bench...
...with him, saying nothing. The day the jury heard Fuhrman use the word nigger, deputy district attorney Alan Yochelson said, "Hey, Chris. Let's get outta here. Let's go work out." But at the Los Angeles Athletic Club Darden could barely concentrate on exercise. He sat on a bench in front of his locker, put his head down and kept saying, "I can't believe this. I can't believe this." Says Yochelson: "It was very painful for Chris, because he recognized that he was being forced to vouch for someone who was repugnant in his community...
...Harvard probably is the best team that [we] are going to play all year," he said. "[The Crimson] probably has the strongest bench in the whole league and no glaring weaknesses. We will definitely lose if we don't play our best...
...Joffe has Demi throw twee tea parties which go horribly awry when all the guests are sentenced to hang for witchcraft. The evil magistrate has tightened the nooses round the hapless damsels' necks and with unimaginable cruelty is teasing his victims by rocking the rickety bench which stands between them and death. But he delays too long, giving the Injuns time to gallop up and save the day by attempting to slaughter all the inhabitants, starting, as luck would have it, with the malicious magistrate. Amid all the confusion of the attack, Joffe manages to sneak a cloyingly happy ending...
...their own about 70 seconds later--yes, allowing a foe to retie a game does seem dangerous, but there is a greater good here. The Crimson controlled the rest of the first half and practically all of the second. In other words, momentum never left Harvard's bench...