Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a plea to "work the ball around more," Kleinfelder sat back to watch her team play inspired ball. Junior Stacia McMahon, in her first start of the season, rose to the occasion, leading the Crimson attack with good, aggressive scoring drives and a game-high 12 points. Freshman Marget...
Unfortunately, the play consists mostly of such clumsy commentary. It's got only three characters: Henny (mother), Scooper (son), and Dierdre (bibliophile cum girlfriend). 83 and blind, Henny, has battled breast cancer for two years without anybody catching on--hence bosoms and neglect. Scooper, never too lucky with the girls...
Roaring in anticipation of the coming Terrier goal, the viewer-capacity crowd slumped back in their seats again and again as Lau rose to the occasion. Stopping two-on-one's, three-on-two's and once even a three-on-one, Lau recorded 11 saves in the first period...
...hostages were sometimes bound to the chairs they sat in, or occasionally hand and foot. They tried to while away the hours by reading. In the beginning some hostages were blindfolded for days on end, and later guards capriciously bound the eyes of some again. On one occasion, the Iranian female guards watching the American women took away all books, though they gave them back when the Americans protested. With nothing to do, and kept immobile, the hostages spent hours thinking about the next meal, which meant both relief from hunger induced by boredom and freedom to move their arms...
One day, three British members of an NBC television crew were arrested near the embassy, but were quickly released. On another occasion, a deeply distraught American woman, apparently the relative of a hostage, appeared at the gates with a child in hand. She suddenly began to shout obscenities at the...