Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only did the Harvard forwards show exceptional ball control--outshooting the Jumbos 37-1--they also displayed depth as four different players scored and the second string forward line notched as many points as the starters...
...commandant Reid seems numb to the entire situation. The pale blue walls in his airconditioned office near the camp's entrance are peeling and Reid has been working at Sham Sui Po long enough to know his routine. He takes a long puff on the first of a string of cigarettes and leans back to describe the camp. His voice is as disconnected from what it is saying to you as the camp is from the swankiness and luxury of the Peninsula Hotel--a 15 minute ride away...
After Australia, Pavarotti was ready for a string of major debuts: La Scala in 1965, San Francisco in 1967, the Metropolitan in 1968. Although his Met engagement, like most of the others, was in his lucky opera, La Bohème, he caught Hong Kong flu and had to withdraw halfway through the second performance. It took him three years to overcome that anticlimactic beginning at the house. But when he did, in a production of The Daughter of the Regiment with Sutherland, he set New York on its critical ear with a spectacular series of nine high...
Sabetti's efforts did not go unnoticed as he grabbed a spot on the second string; but since Craig Beling preceded him on the roster it didn't look like Sabetti would get his chance to break into the varsity line...
...sophomore year I played about 9th string and all I could do was just bounce off people because of my size. It was ridiculous and I just wasn't effective." he said...