Word: cellarful
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...American folk hero," a characterization he embraces, as a once successful, twice beaten and now retired yachtsman in the America's Cup, scarcely a sporting event to figure in barroom betting. He has also been a regional billboard magnate, the owner of a newly thriving but previously cellar-dwelling baseball team and a somewhat more reliable basketball team, and the licensee of a non-network-aflfiliated UHF television station in Atlanta, TV's 17th largest market...
...present slide, which has taken Detroit tumbling down to the middle of the American League East, the ball club sported a startling 35-19 record. The Tigers by all accounts were providing an antidote to the debilitating employment woes and the city's long-time frustration with athletic cellar-dwellers...
...tenure, the Harvard track mentor has consistently turned out teams whose successes surpass all expectations. In 1950, McCurdy's first year as the Crimson's assistant coach, a powerful squad from Yale ran away from everyone at the Heptagonals and the Big Three meet, while Harvard barely escaped the cellar. But three years later, under McCurdy's direction, the Crimson thinclads beat their heavily favored archrivals in the annual head-to-head confrontation. Currently, Northeastern and Princeton are Harvard's chief competition, and the Crimson downed both teams in regular-season contests, attesting to the effectiveness of McCurdy's continued...
...legendary 16-year-old nerd got so deeply immersed in computers that he talked to no one, headed straight to his terminal after school and barely sat down for meals. The only way his father could get him away from the terminal was to go down to the cellar and throw the house's main power switch, cutting off all electricity...
Bringing up the rear in the EIBL this year will most likely be lowly Dartmouth. The Big Green is already 0-9 for the year and shows no signs of relinquishing its grip on the cellar...