Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come often. In fact, Vachon's career started with what for him was agonizing slowness. After learning to play goalie as a farm boy in rural Quebec (his peers would not let him play offense because of his size), he was invited to a Montreal Canadien junior team tryout at age 16. He was immediately sent to the second-rank junior squad. Four years later, when his junior stint was ending, Vachon was once again farmed out, this time to a minor league team. When he finally got a chance to play for Montreal eight years ago, he initially...
Feiffer: That's changed too. At the Boston tryout of "Little Murders," part of the play was offensive to many parts of the audience. There's a feeling that I struck some chord or other that disturbed them. There are particular scenes that bothered them. In one speech, for example (remember, this is a long time ago) the very word masturbation would drive six to ten people out of the theater. Or when Kenny picks up the gun, they sensed that something they didn't want to see was going to take place. But that's a long time...
Both Dagdigian and Burke were invited to Junior A tryout camps while they were in high school. Burke's airfare to Halifax was paid and he was put up in a dorm while attending the camp. Dagdigian and some friends from high school went to Montreal for two days to a camp...
Mike Leckie's case falls into the same general category, except that he is a Canadian. Leckie, who played Junior B hockey for the North Bay Trappers in his home town of North Bay, Ontario, was also invited to a tryout with the Junior A Greyhounds, some 300 miles from his home...
Each of them has recently been scooped up from other assignments and plunked down behind the curving desk for a one-week tryout opposite Barbara Walters...