Word: hash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much fat is there in a can of corned beef hash? Just how nourishing is a vitamin-enriched cupcake? What is the true caloric content of a serving of diet pudding? What is the difference between orange juice and an orange-flavored drink? Questions like these have bedeviled health-and diet-conscious consumers for years. Under radical new rules announced last week by the Food and Drug Administration, people will get all that information and more on food packages...
...Clearly something had to be done. Commissioner Rozelle called a huddle of a hand-picked "Competition Committee," which included one of the most respected coaches in the game: Paul Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals. Brown's proposal for improving the game had the simplicity of genius: moving the hash marks 3 yds. 1 ft. 9 in. closer to the center of the field (leaving them the same lateral distance apart as the goal posts...
Such a move means a lot more to the tone and texture of a game than it would seem. The hash marks are used to position the ball on the playing field after it has been downed either out of bounds or too close to the boundaries to permit reasonable play. Moving the hash marks closer to the center of the field has given offensive players-particularly wide receivers and running backs-more room to maneuver, while the defenses have more ground to cover. Also, field-goal kickers now enjoy a better angle...
Leverett, who is president of the Harvard Chess Club, and Franklin, one of this year's brightest stars, both entered the last round undefeated. But Franklin lost his match in a dogged bishop and rook endgame, while Leverett made a hash of the Queen's Gambit Declined, giving up a pawn on the seventeenth move...
...little lake into the sun or watch in silence the absurd parade of ducks and drakes or the wheeling Frisbees in the sky. Lazing in a field are clusters of young longhairs, some of them students, some wanderers from other nations. They all speak the same language: guitar and hash. Elector Karl Theodor designed this park in 1789. It was not Karl Theodor who inscribed the familiar four-letter Anglo-Saxon words on the sober columns of the Greek temple in the garden...