Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest stumbling block in the path of good neighborliness, he said, is the long "misunderstanding" between the U.S. and Argentina. "All you know of us," he says, "is what, you read in the newspapers. . . . All we know about you is what we learn from those big businessmen who live and grow wealthy in Argentina for 30 years without ever learning the language. Or we see your terrible movies-sex, loose women, jazz, gangsters, stupid slapstick comedy. How can you understand us, or we understand you, without effort...
What made the situation worse was the fact that the two first-string guards were out of action after about ten minutes of play. Gibby King threw a terrific block on the first punt of the game, getting Paul Garrity off to a nice runback, but King had to go out three plays later with a back injury as a result of that block...
...this calculated mass murder, Himmler has two motives: 1) he knows that the dead do not revolt; 2) he believes that if non-German nations in Europe are sufficiently depopulated, they will be too weak in the future to block German expansion and German domination. About 10,000,000 European civilians have been killed, including an estimated 5,000,000 in Russia, 3,200,000 in Poland, 800,000 in Yugoslavia. And by Himmler's command, other millions of Europeans have been uprooted, confined and starved, forced into labor for Germany...
...angle, or position, block is designed to get the most thorough block from the least power by hitting the would-be tackler from some sort of an angle, and with any one of a dozen different types of blocks. None of this push-and-pull strength test stuff. The Harlow system is scientific...
...This blocking business is really the key to the Harlow system, but there are few people besides the old master who even claim to know, let alone understand, the whole works. Dick said that he never looked at anything but the key block when watching a play, because that determined Its success, but unfortunately the ordinary mortal never knew what block this was, and just followed the ball carrier...