Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SUCH DISSECTION makes one painfully aware not just of Jacob's essential un funny-ness as a commentator--she takes Woody with too much desperate seriousness to get any further than a string of "this is hysterical" --but also the delicacy of the task she has taken on. If writing about Woody seemed like a glowing, as-yet-un-snatched opportunity, the flip side is that a talent so multifaceted and subtle as his cannot be helpfully reduced to a series of art-vs.-life and success-vs.-integrity conflicts, or even to a run-of-the-mill Freudian manifestation...
Except for the second game, when Harvard Coach Karyn Altman substituted her starting line to give the second string some substantial playing time, the Crimson avoided making more than a few unforced errors, played aggressively just waiting for B.C. to misfire the hall. In contrast the Harvard's shaky first game against Yale, the spikers served only two balls into the net during the entire B.C. match...
...Allard had been a starter at the most important position on the football field--quarterback--for nearly four seasons, three in high school and one on the Harvard freshman team. Come sophomore year, he all of a sudden was no better than fourth string, playing back-up to Brian Buckley, Mike Buchanan and a wide receiver named Ron Cuccia. Last season, as a junior, he was the first runner-up, mopping up for Cuccia when the Crimson won big, and entering the tight games on third-and-long when Harvard went into its two-quarterback alignment...
...only did neither team manage to connect for a goal, but neither team accomplished the goal it had going into the contest. Crimson Coach Edie Mabrey saw this year's game as her best chance yet to win against the Wilcats, but yesterday the stickwomen extended their winless string against UNH to six games...
Whiteyball means leading the majors, with the exception of the Rickey Henderson A's, in stolen bases, successfully employing the squeeze play almost two dozen times, and always sending the man home from third it also means third string catcher Glenn Brummer stealing home with two outs in the bottom of the twelfth and speedy Tommy Herr scoring from second on an infield...