Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...senior, has tossed eight touchdown passes and picked up 673 yards via the air. Chuck Nelson, halfback flanker in the Engle wing T version of the standard T formation, has been the best receiver of Finn's passes but Frank Mahoney, an end, has been valuable as a decoy when not on the receiving end of the Finn aerials...
Suave salesmen will describe to her the merits of an English shooting stick. They will talk up the all-purpose economy of a hand-carved duck decoy which, used for hunting in season, doubles as a door stop in winter, spring, and summer. On their shelves also is a cellophane-wrapped circular bread board, strapped to which are a bottle of sherry decorated with a bunch of grapes, a wedge of cheese, and a loaf of crusty bread...
...Yankees, as usual, relied on their Mutt & Jeff combination. The little man was swift, 5 ft. 5 Buddy Young, star Negro halfback of last year's University of Illinois team, who has kept enemy defenses loose and wide all season. With him as a decoy, big Spec Sanders, whose shoulder is higher than the top of Buddy's head, found it easier to rip inside tackle for big gains. Sanders, who didn't make the first team at the University of Texas, has gained more yards this year-1,384-than any other back in pro football...
...Pierre, a sleek Labrador also owned by Bakewell, an Eastern dog named Scoronine, and a picturesque Golden retriever with a storybook name-Stilrovin Nitro Express. Some of the others had lost out by committing sins of youth and inexperience: 1) breaking ahead of the signal, 2) going after a decoy instead of a duck, 3) biting the birds too hard. On the water tests, excitable Little Pierre, who was not yet four, hit the water like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled badly...
Over in Democratic headquarters there was another theory. Sharp, spry Jake Arvey, now the real boss of the failing Kelly machine, thought Root might be a decoy to be replaced by a stronger candidate as soon as the Democrats had committed themselves...