Word: yeomanly
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...central weakness of this team is its blueline. Only three of its returning players--seniors Scorsune (8-9-17) and Moore (1-2-3) along with sophomore Peter Capouch (3-3-6), saw significant minutes last year and will be called upon to perform yeoman's duty this season...
...More importantly for the Crimson, the pair turned in yeoman's duty as Stone shortened her bench to two lines in the tight contest...
...event, Professor Garoufalidis is doing a yeoman's job with the course and the dissatisfaction should not be blamed directly on him," Taubes says. "The responsibility for the curriculum and choice of text--not to mention advising towards 22--lies with...
Even a lowly yeoman like Glenn will have his hands full getting ready to fly aboard his new ship. The first time Glenn flew, he was in a mere demitasse of a spacecraft--one with a single window, 56 toggle switches and barely 36 cu. ft. of habitable space. The joke around NASA in that earlier era was that you didn't so much climb inside a Mercury capsule...
...Come to think of it, this is hardly the sort of notion one expects to hear any man, in any age, expressing even to himself. But when Sergei Bubka thunders down the runway with the zeal of a mounted hussar about to drive his lance through a peasant yeoman, people are apt to do strange things. Things one wouldn't expect them to do. Things one might call downright ... unnatural. Like the three frat brothers who wrench their gaze away from the bikini-clad strumpets draped over the first-deck seats to train their binoculars on the vault...