Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect night for football. These are archrivals, the Palmerton Blue Bombers vs. the Pleasant Valley Bears, and they are contending before a homecoming crowd. At the kickoff the ball sails up, disappears in the darkness beyond the reach of the lights, then drops suddenly into view. A Palmerton deep back streaks to it, and is promptly buried under a swarm of blue jerseys...
...hamstring and groin muscles that are always vulnerable to injury. In slow, progressive steps, they worked kinks out of their necks and backs. A perfunctory round of jumping-jack hops is the only recognizable survivor from football calisthenics past. "The wrong kind of exercise can cause injury," Verbruggen notes. "Deep knee bends alone are all right, but those duck-walks you always see teams doing will tear more cartilage in the knee than any game...
...That means he can't coordinate them well, and he'll end up jamming a finger or getting stepped on." True to prediction, Defensive Back Alan Johnson's right hand is raked by a cleat. At halftime, Verbruggen has to treat him for a bruise and deep scrape...
...these Democratic defeats mean a Southern repudiation of the first President from the Deep South since the Civil War? Not really. But they do emphasize the birth of the two-party system in the once Solid South...
While candidates across the South repeatedly denounced high government spending, they were less critical of campaign spending. The old Confederacy was awash with money, much of it from the candidates' own deep pockets. Thirty years ago, Clements founded an oil-drilling firm that made him one of Texas' richest men. He guaranteed loans of $4.2 million in his massive, $6.4 million campaign for Governor. Said he: "The spending was totally necessary because unlike a career politician, I had an identification problem." His elaborate phone banks reached 17,000 voters a day and seemed to bring out every Republican...