Word: rests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the contest featured tighter defense than the squads had exhibited in their two previous meetings. The first two-and-a-quarter games played between Harvard and MIT were offensive displays, with 43 goals in just over 54 minutes of action. But neither team scored between Pratt's goal and the close of the third quarter...
...church. South Africa is officially a Christian state, and most Afrikaners take their Calvinist religion seriously. In the upcountry towns where Afrikanerdom still follows the old rules, Sunday is strictly a day for prayer and rest and for paternal readings from the leather-bound family Bible: no sports, no fishing, no television...
...limit of real dollars (in the American Dreams, $260) with which to assemble an imaginary team of 23 real major leaguers, hired at a cutthroat auction that is equal parts puzzle and poker game. Up to 13 players can be held over from the previous year; the rest are purchased on draft day. The players -- nine pitchers, six infielders, five outfielders, two catchers and a designated hitter -- compete, in aggregate, in eight statistical categories over the course of the 162-game regular season. The winning team is the one with the highest totals in each category: batting average, home runs...
...undercurrent themes of this collection, which begins with a father luring his toddler son into a pool with the promise of catching him, and then allowing the boy to sink or swim. The name of this story is Trust Me, a title that then echoes brightly through the rest of the book like the sardonic punch line of a locker-room joke...
Swearer responded to Roger's claim that the rest of the academic world views Brown as "complacent" by saying that outsiders simply did not understand Brown's curriculum...