Word: tryout
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Undefeated in Eastern Conference dual meets this spring, the Rye, N.Y. active was recently invited to the United States Olympic team's tryout, to be held later this month...
...flying chair a thorough checkout; McCandless reported that his only real surprise was that the MMU shook and rattled when he turned on the forward-motion jets. The space walkers also retrieved a faulty camera from the aft end of the cargo bay, engaged in a brief and successful tryout of the shuttle's sinewy, 50-ft.-long arm, readjusted a scientific instrument on the big West German-made movable platform called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) and tested some of the tools created for April's satellite retrieval...
...festival served as a tryout for the U.S. Olympic team, and McDonough came very close to making it; he was one of the last five skaters cut from the squad...
...Julian Barry and lyrics by Christopher Adler (all Americans). There were reports of backstage turmoil. The leading actress sprained her ankle, a leading actor broke his, and the choreographer was replaced. There were complaints that the National, with its government annuity of some $9 million, was underwriting a "Broadway tryout" (Hall may direct a New York company of Jean Seberg early...
Until a Los Angeles-based executive-search firm fingered Ueberroth five years ago as the "one good man" the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games had been seeking, his Olympic background consisted of an unsuccessful tryout for the U.S. water polo team in 1956 (Melbourne). During the Montreal Games in 1976, nearly cornered into observing his own family decree against summer television, Ueberroth had viewed the competition nightly with the sound turned down low in the darkened room of an elderly neighbor lady who was trying to sleep. He was such an unlikely proprietor of the Games that...