Word: fines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serious in the rehearsal rooms of the 51 quartets that are vying for the international championship. Singers pace, vocalizing bits and pieces of their lyrics, all the while sipping glass after glass of water to lubricate their cords. Among such polished foursomes, the margin of victory will hang on fine points: how well a group conveys the mood and emotion of a song and how precisely its singers blend their four notes to produce a fifth, wholly new harmonic. That high, ringing fifth tone -- the overtone, or "bird" -- is the grail that every barbershop quartet strives...
...species as indigenous to Texas as the longhorn: a Tory Democrat. For once, the most oft-used adjective about a candidate is the most accurate: patrician. Courteous and deferential, he wears his down-home credentials as discreetly as the LMB monograms that dot the breast pockets of his fine cotton shirts. As a campaigner, he is like a good tire: durable, road-tested, puncture-proof. But no one would ever describe him as electrifying: he often seems to be moving and speaking in slow motion. Unlike many men in public life, he looks his age, a weathered 67. His sense...
Quarterback: Tom Yohe faced his toughest test of the year last week against Holy Cross. He responded in fine fashion, completing 21 of 44 passes for 295 yards. He had a pair of interceptions, but one came at game's end on a long heave. Yohe needs 209 yards passing to go over the 1000 mark this year...
...guard Greg Gicewicz had the game of his life against Holy Cross. He grabbed an interception and rumbled 48 yards before being draged down. The whole stadium trembled. Don Peterson, the team's captain and defensive end, always gives a good effort. Tackles Jim Bell and Rich Puccio are fine runstoppers...
...Steve Grogan had done this, people would have said, "Fine, but your team is only 2-3. Win one next week, then we might say something nice about...