Word: blanketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gillman let him go for the waiver price of $100. Bills Defensive Back Butch Byrd also had a personal score to settle with Charger End Don Norton, who boasted publicly that he could beat Byrd on passes any time he wanted to. Byrd not only covered Norton like a blanket (Norton caught only one pass all afternoon), he also ran a punt back 74 yds. for Buffalo's second touchdown...
...height of 12 ft., has averaged 14 rebounds a game so far this year). And they compensate for their lack of height with a go-go game designed to rattle bigger, slower opponents. On defense, St. Joe's favorite tactic is the "zone press"-a full-court, blanket defense described by one opposition player as "like running into a windmill." The idea, says Ramsay, "is to stop the man who is advancing the ball on the dribble and cut off the passing outlets...
...fortunes, competitors have been quick to recognize the company's innovations in the merchandising of financial services. In varying degrees, such giants as Sears Roebuck, J. C. Penney, and even International Telephone & Telegraph Co. have adopted the department-store concept of finance pioneered by Transamerica. Beckett wants "to blanket the U.S., Canada and Europe" with Transamerica financial services. By feeding business from one Transamerica subsidiary to another, and eventually selling all of the company's services through single outlets, he aims to create a financial empire outside banking that will cater to almost every money need...
Then Linus saves Charlie's day by narrating the story of the first Christmas and by telling him: "It's not a bad little tree, really. It just needs love." So Linus props it up with his security blanket, and Lucy and the rest of the kids provide Charlie with ornaments- and a little one-day-a-year love. The voices of the characters, dubbed by real rather than stage kids, are occasionally amateurish but contribute to the refreshingly low-key tone. In any case, listeners will grow accustomed to the voices. Three more Peanuts programs...
...back, and bullet holes in his shirt and leggings. Handing his rifle to Colonel Nelson Miles, he spoke: "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. The old men are all dead. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills . . . No one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs...