Word: robin
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Because he was seeded low after his 4-5 record in Tuesday's preliminaries. Merner faced the top foilsmen yesterday and will take on the lower-ranked fencers when the round robin continues. "I originally scheduled myself to go 8-7 [yesterday]." Merner said, predicting that if he takes six of the eight bouts scheduled for today, he will' probably finish among the top six foilsmen...
Fifth circuit judge Alyin Robin also lauds the hands-off role Ely posits for the Court, but says Ely's finely wrought theory on the limits of judicial activism could never be perfectly realized. "Sometimes the theory doesn't fit the duty" of the judge, especially in the hard cases that tend to reach the Supreme Court, he says...
Gunnoe recalls this practice situation as being a real disadvantage to the team, which found itself facing Southern rivals who had the edge of weeks of outdoor practice already under their belts. "We would spend Saturday in a round robin with M.I.T., Williams, Babson, and U-Mass, discover our passing was all away, and on the next day play Navy, then the number one team in the country, Gunnoe says. The ex-lacrosse champion adds that he feels Harvard's current team is struggling with the same problem. "There's an honest to--God spring in Baltimore, but nothing...
...things both obvious and almost ludicrous destroys any chance for success. He should be ashamed of some of the dialogue he puts into his character's mouths, most notably that of Captain Max, whose moralizing about the tough life of a police officer comes right out of Batman and Robin...
Keith barks commands, June lazes on deck, and the other two-the reasonable Britons-do what they are told. Alistair (Robin Herford), Keith's partner in business, sees everybody's side but his own, while his wife Emma (Lavinia Bertram) wonders how she can transform the toothpick that runs up his back into a spine. The only problem is that Keith, for all his bluster, does not know what he is doing, in business or on the boat, and Alistair, when he eventually takes the helm, runs them onto the mud. Salvation comes in the person...