Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor job: we just couldn't move the ball." said freshman coach Henry Lamar after the game. The Crimson's touchdown play accounted for almost half of its total offense of 161 yards, while the Big Green gained 382 yards, 167 of them on the ground...
...return of linebacker Gary Farneti will strengthen the defense, but the Crimson will be facing a ground threat superior to any it has been confronted with this fall. And even if Harvard can stop the Indians' running game, it will still have to contend with the Big Green air attack, led by quarterbacks Jim Chasey and Bill Koenig...
...task force notes that "misinformation abounds." The "homosexual orientation" is not a ground for despair. Endorsing the findings of pioneering research that have accumulated in the past two decades, the group says that "many homosexuals are good citizens, holding regular jobs and leading productive lives." Psychiatric treatment permits about 30% of adults who seek help to enjoy a normal sex life. An even larger percentage of children who are incipient homosexuals can be reached in time to avoid the condition entirely...
...Windarra churned up traces of nickel ore. After the company announced assays of 3.5% nickel, its stock, which had sold earlier in the year for 50? a share, jumped to $35. "In sober fact, all the company has to offer in support of this is a hole in the ground," warned the London Times...
Back on the ground, with little but their own dignity to hide behind, Laurence Olivier, Harry Andrews, Ralph Richardson and Trevor Howard have some good sport impersonating various historical figures who stand about the control room looking grim but determined. There is a thunderous, pseudo-symphonic score to delude the audience into believing that various moments are tense, exciting, exhilarating, tragic, or all of those things at once. It also helps keep people awake during the movie's interminable 2-hr. 10-min. running time, in which it often seems that The Battle of Britain takes longer to watch...