Word: fake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kazmaier, a sophomore triple-threat, turned in the game's flashiest play on a fake pass. Taking the ball on a hand-off from the fullback, he spun towards the line, stopping quickly to fake a jump pass. Once the backer-ups had pulled back for the expected pass, Kazmaier took off for 15 yards outside the tackle...
...feckless planning and design. New York City is not alone. Throughout the U.S., school boards are putting up the wrong kind of schools. They spend thousands of extra dollars on belfries, balconies, Grecian columns, fake chimneys, and dummy dormers. They balk at the idea of the unpretentious one-story schoolhouse to which rooms can be added as needed...
...years ago, at 46, Montana-born Novelist Guthrie, a veteran Kentucky newspaperman (Lexington Leader), proved in his first novel, The Big Sky, that an honest imagination edged with poetic understanding could rescue the trading and trapping mountain men of the West from the fake-heroic fictional mold into which they had long been cast. Now in The Way West, Guthrie has irrevocably separated the covered-wagon pioneers of the 1840s from the busy, lusty book jackets and movie posters which have long held them in box-office thrall. Guthrie's humane and literate feat will have the mass...
...slim sophomore was kicking because both Charley Roche and Carl Bottenfield had been cocked out of the game in the first six minutes--and Army's Hal Shultz ran it to the Harvard 45. Seven plays later the swiftly-moving Cadets had scored again; this time a fake-pass-and-run by Galiffa (good for 20 yards) and two runs by Jim Cain (8 and 9 yards, the latter to score) did the damage. Jack Mackmull converted for the third time...
...Detroit show, successfully avoiding the fake modern Steinberg abhorred, managed to make its biggest point: with a sharp eye and a little persistence the average shopper could find enough handsome, well-designed contemporary furnishings to fill any modern home...