Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruin forward Lay put Brown back in the game just before the half as he split the defense with his speed and footwork, Lay pulled Meyers to him and then passed to teammate Dick McEvoy for an easy goal...
Toward the middle of the second period, Phil Kydes stole the ball at midfield and fed Pete Bogovich, who quickly passed to Thomas. Thomas pulled the defense to him and then hit Sol Gomez on the right wing. Gomez beat two fullbacks with his fancy footwork and put a five-yard shot past goalie Alex Spector...
Inside halfback Ekkama used traps, short passes, and fancy footwork to dominate the midfield play. In a game characterized by long disorganized passing, Ekkama's precision play frequently brought applause from the stands...
...Fast Footwork. The natty Vesco has already earned a reputation for fast financial footwork. The Detroit-born son of an autoworker, he left school at 17, learned management techniques on the job at Packard, Bohm Aluminum and Reynolds Metals. He went into business on his own at 24, arranging contracts and financing for deals to buy and sell small companies; sometimes he accepted stock as a fee. Partly through this method, Vesco in 1965 combined two tiny valve and control manufacturers to form International Controls, with 20 employees and sales...
Peking's most recent demonstration of renewed foreign-policy vigor has been its sponsorship of Prince Sihanouk and his "government" in exile. China's unwontedly fast footwork has left Moscow in a bind. Because Sihanouk's regime was, as U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers put it, "incubated and hatched in Peking," Moscow is reluctant to recognize it. Instead, the Soviets have urged some vague "joint action" by Moscow and Peking in Indochina. The Chinese were having none of that, so the Russians last week countered with a concerted attack on Mao and his policies...