Word: benching
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...bench took over from there, but the level of aggressiveness remained the same...
Three freshmen started, but it took Yardling Karen Sericka, who came off the bench, to tally Harvard's only goal...
...gauge of last week's preconvention maneuverings, the rallying cry of the present is "Rightward ho!" The conservative wing of the party prevailed on virtually all of the relatively few platform contests, including a call to appoint only opponents of abortion to the federal bench, a rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment and support of voluntary school prayer. Gloated North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, who fought unsuccessfully for conservative stands at previous G.O.P. conventions: "Tom Sawyer found someone else to paint the fence...
...hotly debated by people who watched his treatment of players in Los Angeles. Knight is a relentless perfectionist; to him, a flawed victory is as unsatisfying as a defeat. Late in the quarterfinal against West Germany, Jordan carelessly dribbled the ball out of bounds. From the bench Knight bellowed, "Michael, get in the game!" With six minutes left to play in the semifinal against Canada and with the U.S. ahead 62-42, Guard Leon Wood threw a loose pass and was pulled out of the game for a full-volume lecture. Wood professed not to be bothered, but said later...
CONVICTED. Harry Claiborne, 67, controversial chief judge of Nevada's U.S. District Court since 1978 and the first sitting judge ever found guilty of a crime committed while on the bench; of two counts of filing false tax returns for 1979 and 1980; in Reno. It was Claiborne's second trial; the first, dominated by additional charges that he took bribes from a brothel keeper, ended last April in a hung jury. Those charges have since been dropped...