Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 28 seconds remaining, much-heralded Polish import Richie Szaro lined up for a soccer-style 28-yard field goal attempt. The pass from center was slightly off its mark, and by the time holder Tim Carlson got the ball down, Eli Bob Seiferth had cracked through to block the kick...
...from an early-game shoulder injury, Varney had been the Harvard standout. Playing both ways, the 230-pounder excelled as a linebacker and gained 149 yards on 18 rushes, including a bruising 40-yard touchdown run on the last play of the first quarter. Paul Masaracchio threw a key block for Varney en route to the goal line...
...responsibility of government, things look different than when they merely opposed. The unions accuse them of acting like reactionaries-of dismantling the German welfare system because they voted to impose small prescription and health-insurance fees on pensioners, of sabotaging the coal-mining Ruhr because they refuse to block U.S. oil imports, and of giving aid and comfort to capitalists because Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller has pumped government spending into industry instead of giving bigger unemployment benefits to workers. The discontent has grown so great that it has threatened to undercut the positions of the Socialist leaders in Bonn...
...really powerful in this world are the people who can block a promotion, or a secretary who by dropping a sly word gets her boss to come down hard on someone she dislikes. When a personnel functionary (whose child does not learn to talk but to "verbalize") searches for a damning phrase, he hotly charges a subordinate with "unilateral action." Even workers in the "field" when making a report must learn the lingo that will impress their chiefs back in the glass house: "As you know, the object of the Civic Coordination Programme is to tap the dynamics of social...
...Well, a man's got to believe something, and I believe I'll have another drink." Joe is the sort who, for the sake of a gag and to be included in a rich uncle's will, names his son Hamilton. And to prove that the block is still for chipping, young Ham Sandwich at eight names a honky-tonk for the middle-aged "The Slipped Discotheque...