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Word: faked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ralph Polillio and Wayne Moore took left-end sweeps for 12 and 14 yards, and then Moore galloped 19 yards with a screen pass on a play where Brown froze the Minuteman defense with a nifty fake. An incomplete pass to John MacLeod on third-and-14 killed the drive, but kickmeister Gary Bosnic popped a 33-yard field goal through the posts for a 3-0 Harvard lead, just 5:48 into the game...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Gridders Zap Minutemen, 10-0 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Soon after Steven Masover, 19, held up a bank in Menlo Park, Calif., last November, he was apprehended with $78,000 of the bank's cash, an unloaded gun, a fake bomb and three hostages. In court, Masover, who was valedictorian of his class in high school, relied on a bizarre defense: he had stolen the money, but only to invest it in colonies in outer space as a way for earthlings to escape pollution and overpopulation. Moreover, he planned to pay the money back in 20 years or so, making the heist a forced loan rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Far-Out Defense | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

This color coding has not worked, since it is easy for a bandit with artistic bent to repaint his model gun to give it a menacing steel blue glower. Typical was the incident last July when a real robber brandishing a fake black Colt .38 held up a real Kyoto bank van carrying checks worth 50 million in real yen. That was the equivalent of 263,158 real dollars, which are fake nowadays in Japan anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Disarming Idea | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...Mike (fake punt vs. Harvard last year) Sullivan broke for 56 yards down the left sideline at 10:29 of the second quarter for the Elis' last touchdown. Enter Yale defense...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Ivy Roundup: Favorites Fall | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Down 14-0 at half time, the Tigers got their first tally as a result of a successful fake punt, their second thanks to two fourth and short yardage conversions. Ed Arlin hauled in a 23 yard pass from junior quarterback Ken Barrett for the final score...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Ivy Roundup: Favorites Fall | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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