Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yale Coach Steve Gurney doesn't feel his team is the favorite. Yale lost to Princeton 7-2 while Harvard beat Princeton by the same score The Crimson also beat Trinity 9-0 "Always there's the possibility that you're going to win, but when you're playing Harvard, you have to be realistic about your chances." Gurney explained "We're going to have to get top performance from everyone...
...will be even tougher for racquetman Richard Jackson, who is not only still suffering a slight ankle sprain, but will also be slotted to play in the number three spot left vacant by ex-teammate Brad Desaulniers Jackson will play Yale's High LaBoossiers, a freshman whom Eli Coach Gurney singled out as playing "especially strong, tough squash...
...Some deplore it. The lyrics of T.S. Eliot, the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the spectacular stage effects of Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Costumer John Napier have made Cats a conversation piece and a flaming megahit. The Dining Room. Clear-eyed, touching and buoyantly funny, A.R. Gurney Jr.'s drama compassionately graphs the decline of the Wasp, a breed apart...
Charlie Brooks walked into the execution chamber, stretched out on the hospital gurney, and a catheter needle was inserted into a vein in each of his arms. Into the left (on which Brooks had a tattoo reading I WAS BORN TO DIE) would come the drugs; the right catheter was a standby. Extending from each needle was a length of clear plastic tubing that ran through a plywood slat to the executioner's room next door, and there into a standard hospital bag of saline solution...
...yawning, wheezing and clutching for air. Otherwise the public, unlike the audiences at old-fashioned hangings and beheadings, would have had to rely on its imagination. Granted, the imagination was boosted by sketches in newspapers showing exactly how the execution room looked, with Brooks stretched out on a hospital gurney rolled up beside a brick wall with a square hole and tubes looping through. But this was hardly the same as being there. For those who craved particulars, the appetite was merely whetted...