Word: ushered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basically a boring match. We were favored, and we won," Coach Don Usher said later...
...nice to see Alex starting after four years of playing on the 'B' squad, "assistant coach DON USHER says. "Alex has made a big turnaround this year--he has finally matured as a tennis player, and has harnessed the tremendous talent...
...allowing the racquetmen to advance as far as they did. Down 4-1 in the Clemson match, Seaver survived three match points to come from behind and throw the contest into the doubles finals. Although the Crimson lost to the fifth-ranked Tigers, Seaver "kept us alive." Usher comments.... Usher also managed to keep himself alive during the tournament when he was confronted with a would-be assailant in the affluent Los Angeles suburb of Westwood one night. Approached from behind by a man who coveted the team's money in Usher's front left pocket, the tennis coach swung...
...responsible for the emotional impact of the disaster is the one known at first simply as "the man in the water." (Balding, probably in his 50s, an extravagant mustache.) He was seen clinging with five other survivors to the tail section of the airplane. This man was described by Usher and Windsor as appearing alert and in control. Every time they lowered a lifeline and flotation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers. In a mass casualty, you'll find people like him," said Windsor. "But I've never seen one with that...
...that people are powerless in the world. In reality, we believe the reverse, and it takes the act of the man in the water to remind us of our true feelings in this matter. It is not to say that everyone would have acted as he did, or as Usher, Windsor and Skutnik. Yet whatever moved these men to challenge death on behalf of their fellows is not peculiar to them. Everyone feels the possibility in himself. That is the abiding wonder of the story. That is why we would...