Word: coffining
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...believes in making his counsel available to whomever most needs it. On that principle, he helped Joseph N. Welch battle Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954; he helped the Boston School Department fight enforced racial balance; he argued against film censorship. Rev. William Sloane Coffin, whom St. Clair defended against charges of conspiracy to violate draft laws, once complained: "The trouble with St. Clair is that he is all case and no cause...
...request of the family, services for the S.L.A. leader, who had been fascinated by guns ever since he was a juvenile delinquent, were conducted by blacks belonging to the Sunni Orthodox Muslim sect, though the dead man was not believed to be a Muslim. As the tan metal coffin was carried out of the church, hundreds in the crowd of 1,500 raised their arms to give the clenched-fist salute of black power...
...Coffin Corner Blues...
...alternative in fourth-down situations will be a return to the art of the coffin corner kick, which pins opponents deep in their own territory by sailing the punt out of bounds as close to the goal line as possible. Trapped inside their own ten, a team will not risk an interception by throwing the ball, and will be reduced to grinding yardage out on the ground. Ideally, the defense could then swarm all over the bottled-up offense and force another punt...
...little offensive excitement the new rules have brought to the NFL game is the likelihood of more long punt returns when a team punts from deep in its own territory. More often than not, however, the punting team will have been trapped there by a previous coffin corner kick. Punt, punt, punt...