Word: stringing
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...they spend each weekday imitating an upcoming opponent so that Harvard's first- and second-string players can sharpen their skills against that team's "look...
...felt. When the invitation to the ball came last summer, I snorted a contemputous snort and tossed it. But when it became obvious that everyone and his accountant was going to be underneath that big yellow tent on Saturday night, I knew I had to go. Despite pulling every string God gave me, I still couldn't buy a pair of tickets until Thursday. A good friend of mine made two dozen photocopies of the ball tickets and handed them out free to whoever wanted them as "a political statement against elitism," but I heard about it too late...
...another string of empty days, fast and slow. Reading, mending things no one needed, washing walls, sometimes necessary and sometimes not, fussing with the flowers. In the evening, pacing about the balcony, I read poetry aloud to keep from forgetting how to speak...
...relics of a religion -- innocence -- that all in attendance want desperately to believe in. When the band launches into a moony ballad, folks in their 40s hit the floor to dance slow and close. And as a Mylar balloon sails toward the rafters, one aging yuppie reaches for the string, but it eludes his grasp. The reflexes of youth are gone, but the impulse is as strong as ever...
Witt walked Owen with two outs in the sixth,snapping his string of 16 consecutive battersretired. Boggs followed with his high chopper toDeCinces, who fielded it while charging from thirdbut had no play...