Word: grandstands
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...policy. Ford emotionally embraced retired Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, 74, who in 1935 hired Ford as his $2,400-a-year assistant, thereby enabling him to study law. Football, Ford told students, had "taught him to keep his eye on the ball and not to pay attention to grandstand critics...
...well prepared. The previous week, she and her sister would borrow the score of the upcoming performance from the local library and, to her sister's piano accompaniment, sing the entire opera together. Other afternoons, she often went to Boston's Fenway Park where she bought a grandstand seat in leftfield. Duffy remembers: "I was a Red Sox fan, and my first crush was on Ted Williams...
Soon they'll pull the tarp under the stands and store it there with the bases beneath the grandstand. The field will be left uncovered until March...
...bright and sunny day, with a slight breeze providing the autumnal tinge, reminded a few in Fenway that baseball's playoffs were about to begin. It was a beautiful day for a ballgame, but the lights were out under the grandstand and the food and drink were gone...
...Cambodians in May 1975. On the eve of the debate, the General Accounting Office issued a report suggesting that the mission, which cost 41 American lives, was unnecessary because diplomatic efforts might have accomplished the same ends without bloodshed. The President angrily described the report's authors as "grandstand quarterbacks" and said, with considerable justification, that he would have been "criticized very, very severely for sitting back and not moving...