Word: crossbarred
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...Crimson resumed the relentless pressure as the second half opened, with Chris Harvey hitting the crossbar off a direct kick and another shot just missing wide right following a two-on-one breakaway. At 23:35, Ted Widmere knocked home goal number two after a quick give-and-go play with Harvey...
...their torches up and down, up and down, up and down, slowly so the whoosh could be heard. "Klansmen to the cross," he intoned solemnly; and forth they went, lighting the gas-doused burlap wrapped around it. In a second the flames rolled up the shaft and across the crossbar; around it, Klansmen danced in ecstasy, arms spread wide, the heat and light full on their chests. The followers, the bikers, broke the "reverent silence" Wilkinson had requested and began to holler: "Get me a nigger," "Put a Puerto Rican up there, they burn well cause they're so greasy...
Yale, moving cautiously deep into Harvard territory, faultered when n speedster back Ken Hill lost a Dennis Dunn pitchout and had to smother the loose ball at the Harvard 30. Dave Schwartz's 47-yd. field goal barely reached the goal line, dropping well short of the crossbar...
Penn did threaten occasionally during the half, but the few Quaker shots went over the crossbar or wide. Harvard goalkeeper Bill Blood earned his keep by racing off the line to punch the ball clear on a number of dangerous crosses...
...from five to 15 lashes, plus prison terms at hard labor. In preparation for the whippings, an 18-ft. raised platform had been erected. On it was a large A-shaped scaffold, with straps for the prisoner's wrists attached near the top and thick padding along the crossbar to absorb the impact of the whips on their bodies. As viPs looked on, two muscular men pranced about, slashing Malacca canes through the air to limber up their muscles. They were convicts, who would be rewarded for successful floggings with extra rations. A doctor stood by, empowered to stop...