Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defensive coach. Ralph Jelic, why he thought I wasn't playing on the varsity, Jelic replied. "Because you don't lift your feet high enough off the ground when you run." Which told me that either Jelic knew nothing about running backs or that there was a conspiracy afoot to discredit my abilities. Football authorities do not share Jelic's opinion about my style of running. Paul Zimmerman, in his book A Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football, says. "Some qualities seem universal. The great ones usually run with their feet close to the ground--Sayers, Jimmy Brown, Jimmy...
...accepting his appointment as Andover's 12th headmaster in the school's 194-year history, Sizer, who is 40 years old, said yesterday, "I have been eager to return to teaching and secondary education, particularly given the stresses and changes afoot within the schools...
Three other elections took place on Tuesday, however, which may indicate that something else is afoot...
Short-Wave Sherlock. The first clue that something was afoot came late on a Saturday night two weeks ago. In an apartment on Wimpole Street, no more than half a mile from the bank, a ham radio operator named Robert Rowlands twirled the dials of his receiver to 27.15 megacycles. He quickly realized that he had accidentally tuned in on an exchange between bank robbers. They were communicating via two-way radio sets with their lookout, who was posted on the roof of a high building near by. But when Rowlands telephoned the local police station, he got only...
...Continental Consolidated has its way, Laos and South Viet Nam may soon have similar operations. There is also a move afoot in the Philippines to legalize a score of clip joints that have operated virtually undisturbed along Manila Bay. Even tiny Nepal has opened a casino in the Soaltee Oberoi Hotel in Katmandu...