Word: benching
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...worst dream a boy can have. Even if he's one of the 50,000 or so high school phenoms in a year, his chances are only one in 2,000 that he will play NBA basketball. And once there, the kid is more likely to be a bench jockey, a Harthorne Wingo, than an idol-of-millions type like the Detroit Pistons' Isiah Thomas...
...anticipation of the tie, the Yale bench began to put its hands up in glee. Until the ball began to fall again, and each Eli noticed that it would fall harmlessly behind the goal...
Joined by new Justice Stephen Breyer, the U.S. Supreme Court began its 1994-95 term by facing a light -- though politically potent -- docket. Among the cases the high bench plans to decide in the months ahead: whether states can impose term limits on members of Congress, whether the federal child-pornography statute is constitutional, whether Congress has the power to ban guns from the vicinity of schools and what kinds of federal minority-preference programs are legal...
...also happened to be in the second row, right behind the Crimson bench. Pretty soon, we were consumed by the goings-on of the bench rather than the game itself...
Every time he approached the piano, the audience cheered. But even when he sat down at the bench and played, he didn't always sing. When he explained the lyrics to "Billy the Kid," he played the tune and spoke the lyrics. I'm sorry, but there's just no excuse for that...