Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite special team difficulties, don't overlook sophomore place kicker Ryan Korinke's fine performance. Korinke made field goals of 23 and 38 yards and put some kickoffs deep into the end zone. What about the block, you ask? Simple. Not his fault...
...high snap from freshman deep-snapper Frank Volpe allowed 6'5" Columbia defensive end Marcellus Wiley to block the kick. But the Crimson special teams still had a chance to score. The Columbia player who recovered the block--junior defensive back Roy Hanks--took the ball on the five yard line and ran back into the endzone, trying to gain yardage by reversing his field. Several would-be Harvard tacklers had the opportunity to tackle Hanks for a safety, but each came up empty-handed as Hanks advanced the ball to the Columbia 27-yard line...
...fiscal sanity, an issue virtually owned by the Republicans since budgets were first adopted. From there a series of small-bore but powerfully symbolic pronouncements followed. In August 1995 he urged a crackdown on tobacco advertising directed at kids. Calls for school uniforms, teen curfews, V chips to block violent television shows, and a series of proposals aimed at women voters specifically (including bills designed to increase child-support collections, extend the family-leave act and mandate a longer hospital stay after giving birth) guaranteed that the gender gap, already in Clinton's favor, would grow to historic proportions...
Sure, Democrats could win the presidency again in 2000, particularly if the Republicans hold Congress in 1998 and, by attacking popular government programs, re-create the 1996 fear that a Democratic President is needed to block the run-amuck right. But this coalition looks weaker and more transient than the 1968-92 majority by which the Republicans controlled the White House for 20 out of 24 years...
Incumbency is a powerful tool. Clinton gives a few big waves, then stretches to cool down and beckons to an aide. Things start to happen. Local cops block off the lanes nearest the school and slow down the commuter traffic in the others. The cumbersome motorcade column makes a giant U-turn and pulls onto the highway. Agents secure the area, and Clinton goes over and shakes a block's worth of hands. Little kids stick their tiny fists through the cyclone fence; big kids and teachers grasp high over the top. Fifteen minutes later, as the motorcade pulls away...