Word: broken-field
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...Coaching his first game for Navy, Wayne Hardin turned loose a winged-T attack built around the passing of Quarterback Joe Tranchini and the broken-field flair of Halfback Joe Bellino, rolled to an impressive 24-8 victory over butter-fingered Boston College, which had been rated as one of New England's best...
...alcohol made an impossible couple, it was nothing to his bizarre relations with women. The poet's broken-field running in the sexual arena would baffle a convention of psychiatrists. Author Winwar gallantly charts the whole painful performance, beginning with Edgar's first sonnets smuggled by his sister into an exclusive young ladies' seminary (although poetry was then acceptable currency in "date-patterns," his frenzies must have startled the girls out of their wits). There followed an ocean of vows and verses to members of what he learned bitterly to call "the pestilential society of literary women...
Individual stars of the entire show were the Harvard men guarding the drum, who combined quick work with the drumsticks and efficient body blocking with fast broken-field running towards the sidelines with their charge intact...
ONCE printed, the magazines are sent to more than 700 distributing agencies over 400,000 miles of air routes and 200,000 miles of ocean, e.g., from the Tokyo printer to Auckland, N.Z. is an 8,200-mile airlift. Broken-field running through a maze of import controls, taxes and quotas, TLI often comes up against fluctuating money markets, which in the past year, for example, caused one nation's currency to drop from 300 to 780 to the dollar, and another's from...
...older, "Father Will," is hands-down the best-looking Jesuit in America and probably one of the brainiest. After some brilliant broken-field running through the Jesuit training program . . . he is back to his old stamping ground doing the thing he loves best: stirring up the 'happy vegetables' who populate the athletic teams . . . Younger brother "Rich" (by five or six years) has trained himself for his acting profession no less than Father Will . . . After walking off with every public-speaking and debating medal in the West, he returned after a tour to the South Pacific [as an artillery...