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Jordan used the Harlow-developed "butterfly" defense throughout the game in an attempt to hamper Yale's steady gaining ground attack. The "butterfly" featured an eight-man line with constantly changing patterns of charging, slanting, and looping...
Injuries to Pants Pantaleoni and Ben Goldstein were expected to hamper the team, but the squad showed unexpected depth in filling the holes; it was only Indian summer heat that caused the crisp passing attack to wilt in the latter part of the game...
Party Line. The Los Angeles Times, well aware that Hearst's new campaign might hamper medical progress, also let out an angry blast at the Examiner: "A curious partnership has been discovered . . . The fanatics who oppose animal experimentation . . . are being joined, and in some part led, by Communists and Communist sympathizers interested in sabotaging national defense...
...justify the drastic measures of the Mundt bill is deduced from "recent successes of Communist methods in other countries," not from any threat, real or supposed, to "the sovereignty of the United States." Only two provisions of the bill are directed against acts; the rest are attempts to hamper and expose Communist campaigns and propaganda...
...time of famine prefer to die of starvation beside their impassive bovines. Each animal has its own name and every Ruandan dreams of at least two cows in his pasture. The cows are now increasing at the rate of 120,000 a year. They tie up the best land, hamper the natives in raising food crops. "Except the king,"*runs a popular saying, "nothing ranks above...