Word: chips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, George Jackson reentered the prison system of California in 1961 with a chip on his shoulder. In an act which seemed to culminate the 20 year progression of mistreatment he had received, he had been duped into confessing to a crime--of which he may or may not have been legally guilty--in exchange for the promise of a light county jail sentence instead of a term in the penitentiary...
...second period Wilmot set up the first goal with a high chip shot on a free kick. Instead of catching the ball, the goalie punched it out of immediate trouble. Linkman Henry Sideropoulos quickly passed to Adedeji, who scored while lying on his back by spinning the ball around the goalie and into the empty nets...
...Crimson put the game out of reach with a three-goal flurry in the fourth quarter. Kydes scored with a headshot off a beautiful chip pass by Thomas which had the goalie going the wrong way. Adedeji got his second goal by walking the ball into the nets after dribbling around three backs and the goalie...
...Bargaining Chip. Particularly galling to the doves was the way in which they were beaten. Debate was truncated and desultory-and often played to a near-empty chamber and galleries. The margin of defeat was embarrassingly large on once bitterly contested issues such as anti-missile funding. In 1969 when ABM Safeguard deployment was first proposed, debate lasted one month and the doves came within one vote of victory; this year, the floor fight took just two hours and the vote, 64 to 21, was a resounding rebuff.* Administration spokesmen insisted that the ABM was an important "bargaining chip...
...linkmen in the 4-2-4 formation are integral parts of the offense, and the man with the ball will often have as many as five passing options. The offense will often try to isolate one defender by using short chip passes and return combinations. Another technique is to use cross-field passes which, if quickly returned to the center, will leave two or three defenders, way put of position...