Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspects the I.R.A. set him up. After getting out of jail in 1977, he returned to New York on his own, but was pressed back into I.R.A. service. He says he was ordered to kidnap Dan Flanagan, who owns the chain of Blarney Stone bars in Manhattan, and hold him for ransom. He told the I.R.A. that he had agreed only to gather intelligence on Flanagan. Then McMullen heard that the I.R.A. planned to send a squad from Belfast to kill him, and he went into hiding...
...what about now, when it counts? How will Burke St. John perform? Let's put it this way: he won't hold back this year's squad. But he will bring a change in the complexion of Harvard football. The days of Larry Brown and the big--play offense are gone. "This year you'll see a lot more option work, more of a ball--control type offense," St. John said last week...
...know that. But no one says die, no one says, "Buckley's gone and so are our chances." No one but the supposed professional critics: we who call ourselves sportswriters. The press has buried Harvard in '79. But around Soldiers Field there's a growing voice that's shouting, "Hold on a minute. It's not all over. We haven't even started...
...amazes me. She's such an exceptional athlete," Scalise said in an interview last year. "She's very gifted and fast. She's determined. She does what is very difficult for a coach to get than straight-up set blocking, to hold off the opposition...
...than straight-up set blocking, to hold off the opposition...