Word: beeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devices that experts are developing include X-ray detectors that can more accurately locate a bomb without seeing it, an electronic sniffer that picks up the vapors emitted by dynamite, and a device for creating an electronic field that could cause certain explosives to emit an identifiable beep. On less exotic levels, officials are considering placing all lockers in a secured area, as Los Angeles did after a 1974 blast killed three people, or banning them altogether, as London has done...
PROFESSION: Penn's all-time leader in yards per carry, Penn's best running back in 1974 with 790 yards, Penn's second leading receiver last season, Penn's record holder for most games with 100 yards or more rushing, and better than Adolph "Beep Beep" Bellizeare. You can look...
QUOTE: I'm not dumb. You can be a jock and smart, too. And I'm better than the Bellizeare any day. Beep Beep, My Ass. And if you don't like it, I'll shove your face into the floor...
...seems to know what's going on in regard to Pennsylvania's football team. Information about the team that crumbled in the second half of last year's campaign has been non-existent. The facts alone, such as the graduation of Adolph "Beep-beep" Bellizeare and a number of other Quaker standouts, would seem to make the Philadelphians a losing bet in this year's race...
Then an acquaintance suggested that Leventhal try a nearby field that was lying fallow. After bicycling to the site, Leventhal began to sweep the area with his detector. Soon the beep-beep in his earphones changed to a wail. Leventhal unsheathed his 8-in. scout knife, dug through the dry soil and unearthed a peculiarly shaped cylinder that he thought was just "another sewer pipe." Then the detector sounded off for another hit. More knife digging, and Leventhal was suddenly staring at what seemed to be curls on the back of a bronze head. He dug out the head, wrapped...