Word: fallback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...central Europe, which would hold out to Britain the prospect of dismantling her costly Army of the Rhine, but would strike France and West Germany as the forerunner to U.S. military withdrawal from Western Europe.) Aware of the West's well-publicized failure to formulate any agreed-upon "fallback" positions, the Soviets could thus hope to set the four Western powers squabbling among themselves...
...agreement ("a quite remarkable degree of parallel thinking"). "There is before us a realizable vision of security in Europe . . . provided-and of course this proviso is of the utmost importance-we can make similar progress with respect to the unification of Germany," Dulles declared. Molotov was forced to a "fallback position" that free elections would deprive East Germany's loyal citizens of the joys of Communism...
...eight carries. Bob Parcells played the best defensive game of any of the Eli pass defenders last week, but even his work was unsharp. The Yale pass defense of Mathias, Parcells and Brock Martin has been weak all year. In the Princeton game, the Tiger's left handed fallback Bob Unger was able to run to his right and complete several very shaky passes. One pass that was called back, was completed to smith with no one within twenty yards of the Nassau fullback...
...fallback position is relatively well-manned. Both Ossman and Blitz have plenty of speed and power. Blitz, a sophomore, appears to have greater potentialities than Ossman or even West, but he has been hampered to date mainly by in-experience, and partly...
...again and again to haunt Harvard teams in the next two years. Brad Quackenbush is the mainstay of the line at right end; he plays offense and defense and docs extremely well at both. Yale also has two fine backers-up in Charles Masters and Bob Spears (the offensive fallback); it was difficult to assess Yale's pass defense in view of Connecticut's exhibition, but the defense did seem somewhat vulnerable to short aerials. The right side of the line, led by Quackenbush, Walt Clemens, and Rufe Phillips, appeared stringer than the left...