Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Agents of the Kuwaiti government in exile have asked the Texas oil-field fire- fighting ace to stand by for the biggest job ever. Iraq has ringed the country's 600 oil wells and 26 processing plants with explosives, and if they blow, he'll get the first call to put out the Big Fire...
Performances like last night's should certainly provide Harvard's faithful with some happiness. Harvard shot only 40 percent from the field in the first half, but stormed to a 42-30 halftime lead thanks to 17 offensive rebounds...
...inaccurate to say that any of the book's events are presented in some form of logical order. True, it begins with a page or two of description of the Sugar Bowl triumph in which Gravely was hoisted onto the shoulders of his players and carried across the field. But time is hazy here--everything, from a collection of scrapbooks, to the very presence of Gravely's wife, Rena, brings us back to the time of the coach's past football glory...
Even the minor characters, from Gravely's secretary to the field's chief groundskeeper, are dissatisfied with life. The secretary cheats on her husband with Gravely, and the groundskeeper is an alcoholic. The townspeople who harass Gravely must have pathetic lives or they would not be calling the coach in the middle of the night solely to insult his wife...
...Already Doesn't Have Any Hair Left!: Tomassoni had a short meeting with his team after Saturday night's disappointment, so he wasn't in his office to field a postgame telephone call...