Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Essentially, this is the Multiflex: Restic believes he can convert the best instincts of a defense--instincts that normally serve a defense well--into advantage for his offense. By changing formations on every play, by setting several men in motion before the snap, he forces the defense to react to several changes before the play has even started, leaving the opponents confused and vulnerable. The coach's favorite phrase for the effect of the Multiflex is that it "negates defensive ability." And, Restic says, "The better the football player, the more the ability is negated." He explains: "Because when...
...eight years, Patrick has been tried 13 times and convicted only twice-of misdemeanors. His usual defense: cult-naping is justified if parents think a convert, of whatever age, is in danger. Finally, in San Diego, he was convicted of felony kidnaping, for planning an abduction of a woman he never met. Last week, after hearing a parade of anticult witnesses, the judge gave him a light $5,000 fine and a year in local custody, during which he will be confined to the city...
...Chinese border. The first authoritative press account of Soviet progress in beam weapons was put together by two editors of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Clarence Robinson Jr. and Philip Klass. They pointed out that at Sary-Shagan the Soviets are apparently using Pavlovski generators, highly advanced devices that convert the energy released by controlled blasts of explosives directly into bursts of electricity. The Soviets probably already have an operational HEL that could "blind" U.S. reconnaissance spacecraft orbiting at an altitude of 240 km (150 miles...
There, in 1891, having made a convert of the formidable feminist orator Annie Besant, who was to carry the Theosophists into the 20th century, she died in some thing like triumph...
City landlords, thwarted in attempts to convert their rental apartments to condominiums, tried a new tack, selling them as "cooperative housing...