Word: unspectacularly
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LAKETOWN'S season, though not memorable, was interesting. After a respectable 1970 season (6-2), only two starters returned. The replacements were small and unspectacular. Local predictions were grim. But the Laketown Harvesters turned out to be hard-nosed and--more important--lucky, and eked out sex wins, equaling the previous year's record...
Quarterback Eric Crone had an equally unspectacular day. Forced into third and long situations by numerous illegal procedure penalties, Crone picked up acres of Internal yardage running around in the backfield...
...Sooners, who spend their afternoons serving as blocking and tackling dummies to help with the preparation of the Varsity, were in command of the game from the outset. Their defense yielded only three first downs to Army the entire game, and the offense, though unspectacular, was surprisingly smooth...
...Olympic Games in Mexico City, a young Kenyan took up the 3,000-meter steeplechase because he was a failure in the 5,000-meter run. He won his first steeplechase and soon was chosen for the Kenyan Olympic team. In Mexico, he won his heat in unspectacular time, displaying an awkward style that made purists prickle. In the final, he was 30 yds. behind the leaders with one lap to go. Suddenly, Amos Biwott, 21, took off like a hartebeest in a bush fire, hitting the front on the last turn and thereby becoming one of the least-expected...
...luck. The child of Russian working-class parents, he was born in the Ukrainian town now known as Dnieprodzerzhinsk. He had the right proletarian qualifications for Soviet success, but his early career was not singularly promising. After graduating from a trade school in Kursk, he held a series of unspectacular jobs: land surveyor, factory worker, school director...