Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youth rallies fill the ballrooms, red-faced men in chalk stripe suits, with homburgs and cigars fill the lobby, smoke fills a dozen rooms from the eighth floor up. Across the street, a sound truck blaring MacNamara's Band disturbs the Puritan graves in the Old Granary Burying Ground. The vacant sides of buildings are plastered with candidates faces, and every gutter has a collection of campaign propaganda. It's election time in Boston, again...
...West Rock palisades, which dominate New Haven, caused trouble from the start. The highway couldn't cut outside the cliff-that would take traffic too far from the city. It couldn't cut inside them either-the ground was swampy and the land was costly. The only choice was to cut right through them...
...Pueblo, Indian dancers from New Mexico. Champion, a handsome animal, dances to the Army Air Corps song, "La Cucaracha," and "The Blue Danube" and bounds through a couple of hoops; Little Champion also makes with the hoops and walks along a narrow plank suspended a foot off the ground...
...Tiger two-platoon squad employs a straight single wing offense, concentrating its ground attack on delayed hand-offs through tackle, and wide end sweeps. There is less spinning and faking than in the Valpey-styled single wing, but Princeton has the personnel to run off power plays and enough tricks to keep the opposition baffled...
Princeton ground out much of its yardage by faking an end run by wingback George Sella, who would hand-off to tailback Dick Kazmaier, who in turn knifed off tackle for about five yards at a clip. If the Rutgers secondary pulled in close to meet this play, Caldwell set a flanker to the left and sent Sella on an end sweep--one which clicked for 65 yards and the tie-breaking touchdown...