Word: depths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach Bob Stull converted four offensive players to defense in an attempt to shore up a sagging unit which allowed more than 20 points per game last year. The newcomers will add depth to the unit, but probably won't be able to turn gelatin into granite...
Defensive tackle Tom Gilmore--the league's best defensive player--anchors a defense that boasts a strong corps of linebackers, notably Gavin O'Connor and Denton Walker. Although the Quakers don't enjoy the depth they've had the past few seasons, good people in some key positions, a tough defense, and Coach Berndt's ability to motivate his team are certain to place Penn high up in the Ivy's final standings...
...incoming freshmen, and you've got an idea of the depth that Hafferty has to play with. Whereas in previous years the squad was lucky to have the seven necessary starters, talented players will be watching from the poolside at Blodgett this season...
...novel, with brooding and cynical overtones of Raymond Chandler ("It wasn't the pale skin of a man who'd not seen enough of the sun. It was more as if one had put a paintbrush to an emotion -- despair, desolation, whatever -- and tinged it in that sickly whitishgray"). Depth of characterization is not Grimes' strong suit, but she produces vital word pictures and manipulates her plot cleverly for maximal suspense and surprise...
...Athens. New York has more Jamaicans (275,000), Russians (100,000) and Chinese (200,000), it seems sure, than any city outside Jamaica, the U.S.S.R., China and Taiwan. Los Angeles and Miami have a higher percentage of foreign- born residents, but neither can match New York's ethnic depth and breadth: not only does the city have nearly every immigrant group imaginable, each group is quite large. Even the smaller ethnic communities are sizable: the city has more Ethiopian residents (3,000) than several states have black people...