Word: ackley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...founding documents of American adolescence, I guess--and an early source of the baby boom's self-image of sanctified youth. I was startled to find an exchange I had forgotten. Holden Caulfield, being expelled from prep school, is wearing a long-billed red hat. A pimply kid named Ackley jeers at it, saying it's a "deer shooting hat." "Like hell it is," Holden replies. He squints, as if taking aim. "This is a people shooting hat. I shoot people in it." Holden is kidding, of course...
...Harvard's Kane Waller provided coverage that was just too tight, and Ackley was ruled out of bounds...
...Ackley hauled in the pigskin, and for a moment, it looked as if the gamble had paid...
Barber hooked up with Health Ackley for a 20-yard pass for Yale's second touchdown of the fourth quarter after Tony Kim recovered a John Lafferty onside kick at the Harvard 46-yard line...
...decision in the second quarter undid the Elis. Trailing 7-zip, Cozza decided to go for it on fourth-and-eight at the Harvard 40-yard line. Quarterback Blake Kendall connected to Ackley, but Ackley had his feet out of bounds...