Word: tryouts
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Born Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg, the son of a composer, young George got into ballet by accident. Accompanying his sister to a tryout at the Imperial School of Ballet, Balanchine found himself accepted after he walked across the floor in front of the judges, who were impressed by the nine-year-old's strength, posture and fierce, aquiline good looks. By his mid-teens, he was choreographing. After leaving Russia in 1924, Balanchine made his way to Paris and at 21 became balletmaster of Serge Diaghilev's famed Ballets Russes...
...coke buyer. He was an ambitious, model police officer, a survivor of 25 shootouts. He was Houston's 1978 Officer of the Year. But he had always glibly talked his way out of testing the merchandise, insisting that the coke was too expensive to waste in a tryout. Undercover agents avoid such tests because they are against the law-and because there is no way to tell what suspicious dealers may have mixed into the drugs. This time, however, his host insisted. "I think they began to think I was a cop," Tarver recalls. It was the beginning...
Here is what Red Stovall does not have: money, smarts or any reliable ability to keep that fine car out of the ditch or even on the right side of the road, especially all the way from Oklahoma to Nashville for his tryout...
WOMEN'S TENNIS TRYOUT...
WOMEN'S TENNIS TRYOUT...