Word: tryout
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...years old and the idea of going to law school and spending three years not doing anything really—I had spent five years in the Navy, and I wanted to do something. I got a job at The Washington Post, and I had a two-week tryout, which I failed. I thank the people at the Post, because I found out I loved this, and I knew it was what I wanted to do and tried...
...Internships are changing. Once a summer-long tryout for hooked-up college juniors, internships are going younger, longer and more serious...
...Mark Wahlberg. There also really was (and is) a football coach named Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear) who came out of a college career to coach the then downtrodden Eagles and, as a gimmick designed mostly to hearten their discouraged, if ever raucous, blue collar fans, held open the open tryout at which Papale was discovered...
...encouraging false dreams of hope, even of glory. I agree - in theory. And as sports become an ever more smoothly functioning and soulless corporate machine I doubt that a modern-day Dick Vermeil would try to energize his team's fan base with an open tryout. Even at the time he was criticized...
...Wallace has assured his Canadian partners that Toronto will be the show's only North American venue for 18 months.) But the New York City critics coming to see the show this week won't be looking for a blueprint. And McKenna insists, "This isn't a tryout. This is the real thing...