Word: norm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Possibly thanks to McLain, only a few coaches have criticized the tournament drug-testing procedure inaugurated by the N.C.A.A. this year, a painstaking postgame process that forgot to allow for dehydrated athletes. Coach Norm Sloan of Florida, fearing passive contamination, packed up the whole team and fled a Syracuse Holiday Inn when one of the Gators thought he detected a wisp of marijuana smoke curling out of the room next door...
...year," Charlie Dressen used to advise newer managers, "get a different one the next." Only Rose would understand that this applies to similes as well. Approaching 46, the Reds' player-manager had to leave himself off the winter roster in order to protect a younger man, like Pitcher Norm Charlton, whose finger Rose broke with the first fungo of the season...
Michigan State goaltender Norm Foster made 33 saves, while Maine's Al Loring stopped 26 shots...
Work for Begun consisted of knotting the rope into cargo nets, a job chosen mainly for its monotony. "The norm was eight nets a day, and those who met the norm might get one or two rubles a month to spend on sugar or fat from the prison store." Begun says he never made more than one net a day. "To do no work at all is extremely provocative, and punishment is severe. To do a single net is another matter. I did only one a day as a matter of principle...
...daily norm for meat in prison is officially 40 grams ((1.4 oz.))," Begun said. "But if there is a shortage of meat in Moscow, you can imagine what it is like in Chistopol prison. I never saw any meat." He guffawed when asked if he ever got fruit or cheese. "I never saw an apple. I never saw an egg. I never saw cheese. They gave milk only to very sick prisoners, one glass a day." Begun occasionally got milk, following hunger strikes that he had started to support demands for better treatment. "I went on a hunger strike near...