Word: benching
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...sits on a bench off the Bowery, glazed eyes staring into a void, sipping on a tall can of Bud enclosed in a brown paper bag. "Twelve dollars and 50 cents," he mutters. "Twelve dollars and 50 cents." It is the sum total of one man's life -- the amount he says he has been trying to borrow from his family in Detroit to ensure his burial in potter's field, and to escape from the death beyond death: "They send you to medical school and cut you up into little pieces -- that...
...Greenberg, 60, has been taking his bag of gloves to Manhattan's Bowery, long the haunt of the down-and-outs and the lost- weekenders, and wandering the gritty neighborhood looking for "the old, the reticent and the shy." When he finds one, like the old man on the bench, he dangles a pair of gray or maroon woolen gloves and says, "Take them, please. They're free. They're a gift. No strings attached." Then he shakes a trembling hand. This simple act of communion, says Greenberg, "will almost invariably bring a smile of acknowledgment. You can tell...
...given such a good account of himself that Roby may be hardpressed to bench him when James comes back this week...
Last year, we had glory. Doug Williams came off the bench to win game after game for us, while Jay Schroeder pouted on the sidelines like an ugly Cabbage Patch doll...
...fouled out of his first two games, playing a total of 31 minutes in those two contests. His best game was his performance against New Hampshire, when he came off the bench to score 15 points and grab eight rebounds in only 14 minutes...