Word: roster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cuccia has the ball now, running an option right, getting hit and still getting the pitch off to...The Man checks the roster...to Acheson, who goes around end for seven. Got to stop that running game, The Man thinks. Got to stop Cuccia. And Callinan...
That simplicity disturbs those who want a more assertive memorial. The National Review, calling for a sculpture, sees the black granite, sunken walls and unalphabetical roster as a conspiracy to dishonor the dead. Carhart, a Purple Heart winner who lost out in the design competition (he proposed a statue of an officer ' offering a dead soldier heavenward) says the jury should : have consisted of war veterans, as if a beauty contest should be judged only by beauties...
...right now Acheson has a lot of questions about his future, only one of which is whether he'll find a position on a pro roster. And even though he knows he loves to play football, even though he knows he'd like to continue to play, he has trouble isolating exactly what it is about the game that he loves. "It's hard to say what I like about football, in the same sense that it's difficult for someone who's been playing the violin for years to define why he loves it--it's almost become...
...answers lay in professional basketball itself: a season too long for the human body to stand its stresses; a roster too short for the team's chemistry to survive disaffection; an ownership weakened by the financial fevers of big-time sports. The sources of affliction intrigue Halberstam, but on their trail he stumbles as badly as the team. His account is told at one remove. Throughout, the season is observed with 20/20 hindsight in the subjunctive mood that is the hallmark of Halberstam's style: "Later, he would realize...
Aside from the practical problems of breaking in Corvey and most members, the ACSR will be facing a full roster of investment issues in the spring...