Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kill them after their surrender in 1864. Blue-clad, tobacco-chewing U.S. cavalrymen had rounded them up, marched them like cattle 300 miles from Arizona Territory to New Mexico's Fort Sumner, kept them prisoners for four years. But when the Navajos agreed to peace "from this day forward," they had been freed and helped to start a new life...
...night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates and touching off great houses along the shore...
...pony backfield, frequently upsetting Crisler's delicately timed plays. Outrushed on the ground, Michigan could well be thankful for its prize specialist, 6 ft., 182 Ib. Halfback Bob Chappuis (rhymes with happy-us†). He is Crisler's triggerman. His job is to throw the forward passes, and there is no one in 1947 collegiate football who does it better. In the Minnesota game, it was his flat, sure, 35-yd. throw to Bump Elliott that gave Michigan its first score...
With but minutes to play in the game and the Yardlings ahead by a 14 to 13 count, B.U. freshman Bob Boucher intercepted a long forward heave by Jim Lowell and seampered 60 yards to the goal line to turn victory into a 20 to 14 defeat for the Crimson Freshmen at Soldiers Field Saturday...
Only once or twice could the highly-touted Terrier pups pierce the Crimson forward wall for a gain and had to rely on long runs through a broken field for their scores. Lamar's backs, Johnny West in particular, found plenty of holes to run through...