Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle of the Ivy League pack and a championship squad. Last year's captain, John Sanacore. Sanacore, a four-year starter and twice an all-Ivy selection, will be sorely missed at the left fullback position, but sweeper Peter Sergienko and his backfield mates should pick up the slack...
...middle of the Ivy League pack and a championship squad. Last year's captain, John Sanacore. Sanacore, a four-year starter and twice an all-Ivy selection, will be sorely missed at the left fullback position, but sweeper Peter Sergienko and his backfield mates should pick up the slack...
...meaning for Christians. "The clown refuses to accept the limits of the possible," explains Tim Kehl, a professional clown and magician who is also a United Church of Christ minister. "A clown will insist on riding a bicycle whose wheels are out of kilter or trying to walk a slack tightrope. Sooner or later, he will succeed-to the great delight of the audience. The Resurrection of Jesus is the supreme example of God's refusal to accept the limits of the possible." Through love, the clown, like Jesus, can transform the ordinary into the sacred. At the Last...
...wait. Up onstage were none of the usual Bolshoi Ballet stars, no Plisetskayas or Vasilyevs, no familiar figures at all. In fact, although the dancers showed flashes of the rigorous technique and expressive line that mark the Bolshoi style, there was here and there an unaccustomed slip, a slack fouetté, a leaden lift. What, then, accounted for the electric atmosphere in the theater? Why was the audience applauding so encouragingly, pointing out dancers and scribbling notes in programs...
...seventh to tenth in the national rankings, the squad scored its first victory ever on UMass turf. When All-American middie Pete Predun found himself double-teamed by the Minutemen, he cooly pulled his defenders away from the cage and allowed frosh superstar Brendan Meagher to pick up the slack and pace the Laxmen...