Word: bleacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...park at 6:52 for a 7:00 start. There were no tailgate parties, but rather just a bunch of people looking for tickets. Naturally, we thought that bleacher seats or standing room would be all that was left. Instead, we got third-row tickets down the left field line in the grandstand...
...then declared, "but it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished, as far as America is concerned." Hartmann recalls, "As soon as the students heard the word 'finished' they almost literally raised the roof with whoops and hollers. They jumped up and down on the bleacher seats, hugging whoever popped up next...
...Brown game, a 2-0 Harvard victory which earned the Crimson an automatic bid to the tournament, all of the bleacher seats were immediately taken up and rowdy fans were pressed against the touchlines...
...Germans to a single goal before a crowd of 63,117 gathered in a great, poured-concrete tureen called Soldier Field. At the half, the temperature broke upon your cheek, hot enough for the back of a wristwatch to singe, and I, the only blue eye among distinguished Asian bleacher mates, remarked that someone could stir us and call us shabu-shabu. A mirthless response forced me to note that levity is a poor camouflage for the unlettered, even in sports...
With its Green Monster, quirky outfield, antiquated left-field scoreboard and famous bleacher seats, Fenway is perhaps more baseball than baseball itself--possessing an aura of authenticity shaming modern megabuck parks like Toronto's SkyDome and Baltimore's pseudo baseball-ish Camden Yards...