Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approach of cold weather and accompanying snow is expected to be the latest date at which the campaign against overnight parking will begin. Cars parked in the streets will be promptly towed away, since they constitute a block to snow-removal forces...
...context. Very possibly, it was the Englishman's concern with such minor themes as the Pipit that enabled him to preserve his perspective during the war. This important aspect is conveyed, not in melodramatic buzz-bomb sequences, but in small-town scenes, and indicates the cogency of Rank's approach. The Pipit's sincere saga does more than just muddle through--it scores a tweedy triumph...
Scratch a football coach, and you generally find a man who fancies himself an amateur psychologist. Among Crisler's homemade convictions is the belief that a coach's approach to his players should vary with their national origins. Italian boys, he says, need encouragement because they are lethargic in action. Scandinavians are the hardest to stir up ("I begin needling them on Tuesday"). He plasters the locker-room wall with cautionary signs. This season the warnings are directed against overconfidence. Says one: "There are no savings deposits in football. It's what you do in each game...
Thirteen Words. "In the days when I played, the opposition were bastards and barn-burners," Crisler says. That kind of approach, he considers, is now as outdated as the iron men. His pep talks are delivered in midweek. He boils down the basic difference between offense and defense to 13 words: "On offense, it's poise, finesse, determination. On defense, it's fury, fight, utter abandon." He gives his "offense unit" one kind of indoctrination, his "defense unit" the other. Crisler even has a "point-after-touchdown" unit-including a specialist place-kicker and seven of the biggest...