Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agile Charlie Repsher made a foul shot to give Greenough a 27 to 26 advantage, and the team controlled play for the rest of the contest. Despite rough-house tactics and last-ditch attempts by Holworthy, Greenough kept on the attack for the victory...
...oilfields, he irrigated his crops; on hot summer nights he would lie down to sleep at the end of an irrigation furrow in his alfalfa field, and when the water got far enough down the furrow to lap at his body, he would jump up, dam the wet ditch and open the next furrow...
...skulking saboteur in the employ of the decadent Kuomintang clique. Chin Lan Tse pulls the trigger. "Bang!" and the bullet flies out. "Ah yah!" bellows the fascist running dog of capitalism as he vanishes in the night. Dauntless Chin Lan Tse pursues him, falls into a ditch. What bad luck! But, no, it is good luck. For it is at this very point that the treacherous saboteur has done his foul work: water is trickling through the dike. What to do? The hole is too large to be plugged by a finger, and, anyway, that technique has already been used...
...punt isn't just a last-ditch defensive play," argues Father Fenton. "It's an offensive weapon. A good quick kick puts a team on its heels, and you're likely to get the ball back right away on a fumble or a blocked punt. Same way with a 'coffin-corner kick' [a kick that goes out of bounds within the 10-yd. line]. They're both fine short-term investments. You'll get that ball back with interest...
...Playing as if he meant to win the game all alone, Texas A. & M.'s John Crow blasted his way through a rugged S.M.U. line all afternoon, broke up its last-ditch offense and hove into the clear as one of the best backs in the country. Final score: Texas A. & M. 19, S.M.U...