Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale] played a counter-attack offense," Harvard Coach Mike Getman said. "They sat back and defended and looked for the quick break. They had chances, but some-body always came through for us. [Crimson goalie Stephen] Hall came...
...first half we were definitely a little loose," Getman said. "They were very quick and counter-attacked. The second half we denied them the ball...
...night of the dinner, Gephardt's local organizers seemed well positioned to win: they filled the auditorium with hundreds of red-capped supporters to counter reports of a stalled campaign. Gephardt admitted that he "would like to have a straw poll." Meanwhile his campaign's hirelings, posing as agents of the newspaper, handed out scores of buff-colored ballots to arriving Democrats...
While sleuths have yet to track down the change theifs, Oberlin officials have thwarted would-be counter-feiters by installing a new part in the change machines so that they will no longer accept photocopies...
...negatively by subjecting reporters to the humiliation of shouting questions over the helicopter's roar. Artificial as these tactics were, they helped him sustain the popularity essential to any ! effective presidency. But the trick has worn out, as do all long-running television acts. When Reagan tried to counter the Wall Street crash with one- liners shouted over the rotor blades, it was not Sam Donaldson but Ronald Reagan who looked inadequate...