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Taking the direct pass from center, he stepped back, his arm cocked to pass. Then, tucking the ball under his arm, he faked a plunge toward the goal line. At the last moment, just as the converging Bruin linemen had him hemmed in, Sears lobbed a floater to Halfback Carmichael for the winning touchdown. Final score, after the teams had battled around midfield in foggy, floodlit gloom through the last quarter: Sears & Co. 14, U.C.L.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Game of the Year | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...squinted. He is the opposite of Charley Paddock, who was what trackmen call a "driver." Because of Paddock's high knee action and short back kick, people some times swore that "he ran sitting down." Patton, whose legs revolve' with a smooth wheel-like motion, is a "floater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...first, Mel was carrying his arms too low. But the coach cautioned him against raising them too high; that would tighten up the shoulders and cut down his relaxing. Quick to catch on, Mel became a "floater" in two semesters. In his second year he sliced his time down to 9.9 seconds. The-next year it was 9.8. He didn't lose a race in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...knows how many hundreds of her crew bobbed in the ocean the next morning. Three life rafts and a floater net supported a few. The rest drifted about, held up by rubber life belts or Mae Wests. By mid-afternoon all were blind from the tropical sun, and after dark they shook with cold. About 60 died that night. Their life jackets were ripped off for the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men Against the Sea | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...batting was in general poor, with the average batsman tending to hit below the ball and late. Probably the outstanding example of the tendency to hit late was Lindell's game-winning home run into right field in the second inning; Conroys two-base floater along the first base line in the sixth and Metkovitch's two stupendous misses before he tripled in the second corroborated the impression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECTATOR | 4/21/1944 | See Source »

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