Word: holing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then look for some place to hole up until the pregame meetings with the coaches. Some guys sit on the head for an hour and a half, some lay prostrate in the hallways and others hide among the lockers. (I like to lay on the electric gurney cart that they use to cart off players injured during practice but some guys are superstitious and would rather not have anything to do with that cart.) You then head for the meetings with the coaches and there your coach goes over all the things you had prepared for the game...
...sitting in his room playing poker with the people from down the hall. The kid was wearing a blue corduroy vest and a T-shirt from his neighborhood volunteer fire department, and he was drunk enough to be smoking a very cheap cigar without realizing it was burning a hole in the vest. The kid's name was Larry and he dad gone to a Catholic high school in Queens without hating it. To Carlo, who for the last seven years had managed to slip into the corner drug store every Sunday while his parents thought he was at Mass...
...place all her photographs and little knick-knacks, and her side of the room rapidly took on a warm homey appearance. Adrian was a little less sure of where she wanted her things to go, partly because she felt that nothing she could ever do would make that cavernous hole, look any better. Adrian was very blonde and blue-eyed, with a more austere face than Louise's which often tended to make her look indifferent when she did not feel that...
...through the first semester of freshman year I journeyed back to New York and naturally had to visit the city's quintessential Irish bar, a little hole-in-the-wall in the wilds of forgotten Queens called The Liffey. The usual crowd was there--a veritable sea of middle-aged pug noses and freckles, resounding with the dull roar of angry brogues protesting the blindness of an insufficiently partisan basketball referee. James Joyce smiled benignly from several wall posters, four signs urged me to join the IRA, and behind the bar rolled Tommy, the spherical bartender who had taken enough...
...weekend at the West Point Golf Club where the Easterns were contested. Coach Bob Donovan showered the tournament with praise, saying "I never expected to see a college tournament run this well in the East. The scorekeeping system was great. The hospitality was great. There were forecaddies on every hole and people carrying leaderboards in the final round. There was walkie talkie communication between the tournament marshals...