Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last-ditch defensive play," argues Father Fenton. "It's an offensive weapon. A good quick kick puts a team on its heels, and you're likely to get the ball back right away on a fumble or a blocked punt. Same way with a 'coffin-corner kick' [a kick that goes out of bounds within the 10-yd. line]. They're both fine short-term investments. You'll get that ball back with interest...
...ballet dancer's tour en I'air) to achieve Fenton's No. 1 fundamental: balance. "If a punter is balanced, he'll be accurate," says Father Fenton. Fenton strives for the accurate spiral that rolls for extra yardage, schools his punters to aim for coffin corner from as far out as 55 yds. A Fenton-trained kicker gauges the wind like an old salt, will boot low against it, high with it. The best ones can even tack the ball into a wind angling up the field to get a few added yards. One other Fenton...
Baker was walking back to Leverett House, of which he is a resident. He had passed the quartet, standing on the corner of Mount Auburn Street, seconds before. No words were exchanged at that time...
...complete story of General Thomas Dresser White required that TIME talk at length to the Air Force generals who make plans and decisions for White's global striking force. But fast-moving airmen are not always easy to corner. The Washington Bureau's Edwin Rees was lucky enough to catch White on the ground, persuaded Mrs. White to order him home early from his office one afternoon, interviewed the general over the bowl of oyster stew that Mrs. White had prepared for him. The Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha...
...named because they are custom-made to carry the star. Too often, however, the star winds up carrying the vehicle, and sometimes, as in the case of a comedy called The Big Heist, even such broad shoulders as Bert Lahr's cannot carry it as far as the corner saloon. Written with an eye on Damon Runyon and a finger in a dictionary of U.S. criminal argot, the play explored a quaint old vein of humor among thieves: Lahr, as a low man on the totem pole of crime, joined another aging juvenile delinquent (Fred Gwynne...