Word: getaways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerful, 175-lb. French Canadian, Maurice Richard is deservedly the highest-paid player in hockey ($9,000 a year). He has a whiplike getaway: in three strides he can be at full speed; he doesn't telegraph his goal shots: the puck is in flight almost before the goalie knows Richard has snapped his stick. His only serious shortcoming, which Howie Morenz did not share, is a weakness on back-checking; critics call him a "one-way player." But his scoring strength offsets that defect...
...Notre Dame, Frank Leahy was far too busy teaching his pass defenders new tricks-such as dancing first on one foot, then on the other, for a quick getaway (something he picked up from watching Bobby Riggs play tennis)-to worry about the morals and ethics of U.S. football. "But when I get time to think of it," he said, "it depresses me terribly...
Drain. In Alhambra, Calif., two thieves listened to their car radio while companions looted a market, later tried to make a getaway, found they had run down the battery; the starter wouldn't turn over...
...retelling the story in Last of the Bad Men. The gallows was an indoor affair, with a trap worked by a waterpower gadget. Tom had already made one escape from his cell, and was known to have rich and imaginative friends who might try to engineer another getaway. So the sheriff, taking no chances, held the hanging one day in November 1903 in a corridor of the Laramie County jail. Militiamen were posted outdoors. Tom was fitted with a five-strap leather harness, to keep his arms and legs from dangling. A couple of his cronies, invited...
...Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...