Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side. From the press box one could see the desperation of the Harvard team, as it tried to shift with the Bates line. The tackles would pull out to meet the shift and the guards would remain stolidly in their accustomed positions. There was just the hole that Mr. Wellman & Co. were looking for. A little push on the part of Stone, the gigantic Bates tackle and the backs were through the line for plenty of ground...
...next time that the shift was into an unbalanced line, the tackles would hesitate and the runner got through the hole that was left outside. A baffling situation, but one excusable with the crop of sophomore linemen playing their first game of Varsity football...
...Camden, N. J., Mrs. Elsie Barnabie eyed malevolently the workmen who had come to replace the electric light pole on her front lawn, refused even to give her the old one for firewood. As soon as they had dug a clean new hole she plumped herself down, dangled her legs in the hole, delivered an ultimatum: "Now you can't put any pole in at all. It would block our view." Equipped with blankets, food and a blazing fire nearby, she sat stolidly on the edge of the hole all afternoon, all night. Every eight hours a new shift...
...fourth day Mrs. Barnabie sat in a chair beneath a canvas canopy, rocked back & forth on planks laid across the hole, threatened to rock until Christmas...
...fifth day the siege had cost Public Service Electric & Gas Co. $400. On the promise of a truce Mrs. Barnabie was induced to leave the post hole for a conference at the mayor's office. Reluctantly the company offered $200. Mrs. Barnabie returned home to gather up her flag, announce complete victory. That evening the line crew cut up the pole, carted it into the Barnabie cellar...