Word: home-team
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...outskirts. As Christmas 1972 approached, the main preoccupation of the city's relaxed, resilient and notably hospitable people was the 20th Amateur Baseball World Series, in which the local team had finished in a second-place tie with the U.S. entry, behind the vaunted Cubans. The home-team success added a special giddiness to the Critería, the 24-hour binge of parties, street dancing and fireworks that rocks the city every year as the Christmas holidays begin...
...final trophy event of the fall season, Radcliffe's sailors lost the Victorian Coffee Urn by two points to MIT. Jinxed by the home-team advantage, the Cliffie's were plagued by costly disqualifications...
...scheduled première night of the Ypsilanti Greek Theater last week, there was a plywood stage covering the infield and classic columns standing in front of the bases of the Eastern Michigan University ball park. From the home-team dugout, a 16-piece orchestra played eerie music, specially composed by Iannis Xenakis, while 1,500 gowned and black-tied first-nighters took their blue-cushioned seats in the weather-beaten grandstand. The guests included Broadway Actress Rosemary Harris and a clutch of local politicians, but this was one première where it was more important to see than...
...seats went for as much as 30 soles ($1.00) apiece, twice the regular rate and equivalent to a full day's pay for many a Peruvian laboring man. By game time, 50,000 fanatic soccer fans had crushed into Lima's National Stadium to howl for a home-team victory. Wild-eyed aficionados were already jubilant and confident...
True to professional hockey's lusty tradition, loyal fans of the New York Rangers boo the visiting team, jeer at the referee and greet home-team blunders with showers of eggs and cries of "Ya jerk, ya"-a provincialism once reserved for the bumbling baseball players who inhabited Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Last week, when the New Yorkers blew a 2-1 lead to the Toronto Maple Leafs, a sullen crowd clustered outside the Ranger dressing room to taunt their tarnished heroes. "Aw, go back to Montreal!" one fan yelled at Player-Coach Doug Harvey. "Whatsamatter, Gump...