Word: controls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There's no denying that. In a game that the bookies had stopped taking bets on because UMass was so heavily favored, the Crimson took charge early and then stayed in control by handing UMass pitiful field position everytime it touched the ball...
...UMass did not control the ball offensively. Our defense held them and that was the key factor in the ballgame...
Though the Crimson defense performed without the services of linebacking standout Craig Beling for over half the game, the Minutemen could do little all day to achieve the kind of ball control they are known for, let alone the victory...
...which makes the appearance of Meltdown at Montague especially welcome. The pamphlet/book, compiled by a group of students and faculty at political trend-setting Hampshire College, details what would happen if a nuclear reactor's radioactive pile got out of control. Known in the trade as "meltdown" because the core reaches an incredible temperature and eventually fuses together--the process creates a virtually unstoppable reaction that releases large quantities of radiation into the atmosphere...
...indulge in scare tactics. The possibility of a meltdown, while admittedly slight, does exist. Many people forget the two near-disasters within the last 12 years: in 1966 the Fermi reactor near Detroit suffered a partial meltdown; in 1974 the Browns' Ferry reactor in Alabama went completely out of control when a careless maintenance worker started a fire among the cables used to dampen the reaction, knocking out both the primary and secondary safety systems. Plant engineers later said it was a miracle that they managed to regain control over the reactor before it blew up completely. The point...