Word: getaways
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...from concealing the clues and making a crafty getaway, the mad murderer is usually indifferent about being arrested. Often, like Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, he is anxious for his crime to be followed by punishment...
After a hopeful first period getaway which saw goals by Jay Hurley and Charley Gregg, the latter on an assist by John Rogers, keep the score a respectable 3 to 2, the Crimson attack wilted before the determined not tending of Dartmouth's Austin Knight. In the last three periods the Green's well coordinated attack, paced by all-American Bob Merriam, who scored four goals and four assists, moved out for eight additional goals and an insurmountable lead...
...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...