Word: scorecard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During a swim meet, Daniel positions himself in the stands directly above the finish line and begins his meticulous ritual. Before each race he listens attentively for the announcement of the competitors and neatly pencils their names into a makeshift scorecard in his looseleaf notebook...
...painstaking care with which Daniel completes the scorecard does not go to waste since he later pastes them on his bedroom walls...
...upset after that meet that I went home and ripped up my scorecard," the seventh grader says. "I later pieced it together and put it on my wall to remind myself that Harvard wasn't unbeatable...
...elusive goal, the failure to convert pressure into something that shows up on the scorecard, leaves a nagging anxiety even with a team, like Harvard, that is unified and confident of its own abilities. "That's the frustration," commented one player, "you never know whether things are going to click...