Word: walk-on
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Enter Chambers, a walk-on from the football team, who thrilled the crowd with his exciting hustle and aggressive ball-handling. His biggest play came with 58 seconds left in the game, when he stripped the ball from Harvard's Ron Mitchell in the lane to preserve a two-point lead...
Greenberg has witnessed a parade of defeated humanity in his quarter-century of giving on skid row. He has offered gloves to his former professor at Brooklyn College and to a once famous baritone at the Metropolitan Opera, recognized by Greenberg from his days as a youthful walk-on at the Met. Most of the people he meets are confused, seemingly uncertain of where they are or what they are doing. The more frightened refuse the gloves, and he will follow them for several blocks, insisting, "They're a gift. I really want you to have them." One elderly...
What's missing in brawn is not lacking in enthusiasm. Like most of the squad, Thomas is a walk-on who just showed up for practice last August, drawn by the rare opportunity to play big-time football. Many are footing S.M.U.'s $13,200-a-year expenses themselves. "This is one great chance I couldn't pass ; up," says quarterback Greg Ziegler. There are pragmatic reasons too for getting on with the reborn Mustangs. "It will look good on my resume," mused a running back. Ziegler figures that "all the pressure of the big competition will help me later...
Having grown up on a horse farm in Kentucky, Bonnie was more likely to end up a steeplechaser--like his father--than a soccer player. He was a walk-on at Harvard, behind the others in experience and training...
...just as Meredith plays a part in Ackroyd's book about Chatterton, Ackroyd has a walk-on in Kaplan's. If the accretion of historical detail were + all, this would be a superlative evocation of the England of George III. But Kaplan's aim is psychobiography, and her narrative attempts to press a free spirit into a Freudian mold. She rings in a psychoanalyst to testify on mind and motive: "Those who have not been able to project their Ego Ideal onto their father . . . grant themselves their missing identity by different means, creation being one among others. The work thus...