Word: deke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trademark--the triple deke--is unholstered when he gets in alone on a goalkeeper. Faking high and lo thrice, in rapid succession, he leaves the goaltender on his knees and the ball...
...players--including Ted Shoebridge, the starting quarterback, and Arthur Harris Jr., the team's leading rusher and pass receiver--were from northern New Jersey. As fate would have it, Arthur Harris Sr. was also on the plane because he had been offered a seat by assistant coach Deke Brackett. And as fate would have it, assistant coach William ("Red") Dawson was not on the plane. It had been decided that he, along with graduate assistant Gale Parker, would drive back from North Carolina in the car that Dawson had been using for a recruiting trip...
...agents were spreading the word that King's killer had been a single gunman acting alone. Roger Wilkins, then head of the crs, recalls that when he and Attorney General Ramsey Clark were flying to Memphis from Washington the day after the killing, FBI Assistant Director Cartha D. ("Deke") DeLoach "was pushing us hard" on the FBI's lone-gunman theory. How the agency could have been so sure of that so soon is a mystery...