Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undaunted by McCluskey's dodging, twisting run, Brown went right to work after Harvard kick off, marching 76 yards to tie the score at 7-7. The Bruins' counter came on a six-yard off-tackle slant by left-halfback Melvin Bryant...
...backfield men, the "flanker," stations himself just behind his own line. This secures two advantages. First, the flanker is in a better position to block than in the regular T, since he is closer to the line of scrimmage. Second, whenever the offense realigns its manpower, the defense must counter with an equal adjustment. Otherwise, the team running the ball will barrel through a spot where the opposition is undermanned. In the flanker T formation, six men are on one side of the center; the defense must make a similar six-five division, or allow a dangerous power imbalance...
...buildings for which Wiggins signed licenses last spring are presently being stocked with special "survival" crackers, large tanks of chlorinated water, medical supplies, and a Geiger counter. The supplies will be replaced every five years...
Columbia students who chafe at parietal rules have a recourse, however, not open to most of their Cambridge counter-parts. Residence in dormitories is not required, and undergraduates may live in apartments if they so desire, Many so desire...
...Straight Lines. The first stone was set just as the Council of Trent was ending, and for 21 years the walls rose to bear out in architecture the spirit of the Counter Reformation begun at the council. To the little town of El Escorial (meaning slag heaps, from the nearby iron furnaces) came bronzes from Milan, candelabra from Flanders, rare woods from the New World. Philip personally supervised the work from a stone seat overlooking the site two miles away. He raised laborers by national levies, and many saw in the macabre plan of the monastery a visible proof...