Word: blitzing
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...drive begun at the Big Green 17 with three minutes left in the third period culminated in a touchdown at 1:20 of the fourth, when quarterback Kevin Case fought off a Harvard blitz and speared wide receiver Harry Wilson on a 29-yd. look-in pass play...
BROWN at CORNELL: Barring a hurricane, it's Brown in a blitz. Brown 30, Cornell...
...suits him." The collaboration between the two goes back to 1966, when Rafshoon handled Carter's unsuccessful race for the Georgia Governor's mansion. This year, with the aid of just two writers, two airtime buyers and a tiny office staff, Rafshoon waged a year-long ad blitz in 38 states to win his man the Democratic nomination, preparing and airing commercials without Carter's reviewing them first. "Jimmy never tells me what to do," says Rafshoon. "He knows I am a professional and trusts my judgment." Indeed, Rafshoon's ardor for his work contributed...
With sheer hard work and a whopping $950,000 (v. Symington's $550,000), he closed the gap. Rural Missourians, unimpressed by Symington's credentials as a former U.S. Chief of Protocol, voted for Litton in droves, and a last-minute TV blitz cut into Symington's margin in metropolitan St. Louis...
...local Republican candidates, particularly in the sunbelt, picking up IOU's wherever he went. So when Rockefeller emerged with his inevitable polls showing him beating Johnson in '68, it hardly mattered--Nixon had the GOP county chairmen. Rockefeller tried to offset Nixon's advantage with a $4.6 million media blitz and a new set of polls. But after the assassination of Robert Kennedy it was too late--Nixon had run in the primaries, and Rockefeller was trying to run in thepolls. The party leaders resented...