Word: blackboarding
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...Sammy's runs about $100,000. On one side of the shop is a Western Union ticker machine, its burden of basketball, hockey and fight results magnified on a moving screen. On the opposite side, half-time and final basketball results are chalked up on a large blackboard as they roll in. Behind the counter, house men with Edward G. Robinson accents answer a battery of telephones...
This week, on doctor's orders, the grand old man of Southern football quits as coach of Georgia Tech. Football coaches everywhere accepted Bill Alexander as a blackboard wizard. Season after season, he thought up new ways to baffle old opponents, put new twists on old tricks. No man to keep his opinions to himself, he argued doggedly against the huddle (because it slowed the game), once brushed off a proposal for fancy new uniforms with a terse: "You look mighty silly when you lose in a trick getup...
Necessity was the mother of his gridiron inventiveness. Because Tech's academic standards were high, his squads correspondingly small, onetime Mathematics Professor William Anderson Alexander devised an intricate type of play that few but his apt engineers could have mastered. Ruddy-faced Coach Alex carried his chalk and blackboard to the half-time dressing rooms, substituted diagraming for tear-jerking pep talks. He said rousing up the boys produced mental instability...
...Curtain Is Up. Artillery pops behind us. A few seconds go by and then, as if teacher were pointing out something on the blackboard with a mile-long pointer, three smoke plumes rise from the crest of Huilungshan...
They knew, for example, that the trim little schoolhouse at Westkapelle was doomed. Its floor had become a black mire. Its desks were coated with oil and refuse left by the tide. Soon the whole building would crumble into the sea. But on its blackboard, beyond the water's reach, they had chalked three words: Wij zijn bevrijd-"We are liberated...