Word: contest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 1:46 remaining in the contest and a fourth and three situation on the Navy eight, Shaw calmly came through with a perfect 24-yard field goal and the game was deadlocked...
...campaigning for a short vacation in Palm Beach. It was shattered hours later in Albany when New York's Nelson Rockefeller announced plans for a November invasion of Nixon's own hunting preserve in California, with the implicit promise that the G.O.P., too, faced a real contest for its political blue ribbon...
...seats for Latin American nations. Although the U.S. maintains that the agreement was valid for only one year, the Latin Americans figured that a vote against Poland would mean certain Soviet-bloc opposition to perpetuation of their two seats. ¶The Latin Americans do not consider the Poland-Turkey contest a big issue even if the U.S. does. Adding Poland to Russia and neutralist Ceylon (which last week replaced Canada on the Security Council) would, they say, still leave the West with an 8-3 majority at the least-one more than the 7-4 vote needed to throw deadlocked...
Drop-kicking played an important role in the 1912 Dartmouth game. Charley Brickley, probably the greatest kicker in the history of Harvard football, split the uprights in the third quarter from seven yards away, for the only three points scored in the entire contest. Nor was Brickley merely a field goal specialist; he rushed for 68 of the Crimson's 190 yards on the ground...
...Crimson entered the 1958 Dartmouth contest with faint hope. The Indians were a powerful aggregation, having lost only to Holy Cross and destined to become Ivy League champions. It seemed that the varsity, having won two in a row, had gone about as far as a Harvard team...