Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curiosity rightfully piqued, grills him as to what could have occupied him for so long in the middle of the desolate night, Murph fails to provide an adequate answer. Not that the audience cares much. But it's kind of annoying to be faced with evidence of writer's block in a finished production...
Biggest Masochist in Harvard-Yale game: Yale immortal Brian Dowling, who in addition to quarterbacking Yale in that famous 1968 29-29 tie, also returned punts, which is about as safe as running a sweep behind the pulling block of Kingman Brewster...
...football rarity, a "football junkie," the type of guy who, as he readily admits, "loves the game and the people who play it," who seems to get much satisfaction providing enthusiasm and cheers from the bench (and does he ever) as he would throwing a winning block...
Smith said that he would not have entered politics in a community where the campaign and the voter-relationships were not "low-profile." "In Vermont, we have a healthy brand of politics, and when you put your head on the block, it's really nice to win," he said...
...company and the Air Line Pilots Association have since pared the list of demands to around 150. Money is no longer a major stumbling block. The company has offered a 35% hike over three years, retroactive to Nov. 1, 1975 It would raise the pay of senior captains flying Continental's Boeing 727s from $47,364 to $66,600 a year, plus more than $14,000 in benefits; salaries of senior DC-10 captains would go from $58,248 to $79,200, plus more than $20,000 in benefits. The key problem is that the pilots also want...