Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crash...
...hope we can crash somebody before the season's out," Ford said, "and we'll be all out to win this game before we head down to Brown." And maybe do a little crashing as well...
Wood is not relaxing, however. His life seems fragile. As a teenager, he spent 15 months in hospital after a car crash that left him with one leg shorter than the other; drafted into the army, he was accidentally shot in the back. In 1969 he had a major cancer operation. "I have apprehended death. It releases vitality." Now he is pacing himself like a champion aiming for a final thrust at supremacy. "I hate being called 'in fashion.' I've earned my success," he says. 'I've been 22 years in this business...
...world acknowledges, the show of force worked. But the operation proved costly: 18 Marines were killed in action; 23 airmen died in a helicopter crash on their way to the combat zone. The author seems to beg some of the larger questions raised by the rescue: Would the Cambodians have released their prisoners if the U.S. had demonstrated less power? How serious were the Cambodians about holding their captives...
Sweep down to the field in the center, green and pulled tight and pulled apart by rubber bands of dirt. Suddenly, far beneath the ball, thwack. It snaps. The men leave their private turfs as one and crash to each other like the joust of great elks. They come together with a thundering of a team, but there is no sound. Layered in bandages, packed in ice, paralyzed, you thrash to hear the sound and there is none. Johnny Bench is in Pete Rose's arms, and the ball is high above shallow center. Everyone knows this...