Word: seam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard, who had a season-low three fumbles, came out ahead on its first loose ball of the game. Perry found Dave Haller open in the seam for a 13-yard reception, but the ball popped loose as Haller hit the turf. Senior Mark Bianchi grabbed the free ball and ran it into the end zone for the first of his three touchdowns...
...region (wooden board and batten exteriors, exaggerated overhanging eaves) without being simply Hansel- and-Gretelish. Ann Mullaney's new information kiosks on Paramount Pictures' Melrose Avenue studio lot in Los Angeles are also admirably no-nonsense and low-key. They are neoclassical wooden booths with fine detailing, standing- seam copper roofs and all the glitz of a New England farmhouse. When a large corporation suppresses the instinct for overpolished aesthetics, hurrah for Hollywood...
Whether it be a lack of openings in the lane or a reluctance to enter to paint, the Crimson has been plagued by the lack of a single player to drive through a seam in opposing defenses...
...reflect on baseball uniforms? Well, like the alleged flat seam on the baseball, the height of the mound, the spitball or the tricks the wind plays on a fly ball, the uniform is just another nuance of the game...
Michael refuses to eat at the soup kitchens, preferring to panhandle for a meal: "I don't like to be around those people. It makes you feel like some sort of crazy. Before you know it, you're one of them." He keeps a tear in the left seam of his pants, just below the pocket; when he panhandles among commuters, he tells them that his subway fare fell out of his pants. When that fails, he wanders past fast-food outlets, waiting for a large group eating near the door to get up and leave. Then he snatches...