Word: kicking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...field a burly, red-shirted figure burst into the Michigan State backfield and almost blocked a quick kick. On the sideline a rumpled, prowling man in brown slacks and unbuttoned shirt scowled and grabbed a telephone. "Who came in on that?" he demanded from an unseen watcher high in the stands over Palo Alto's Stanford Stadium. Coach Hugh Duffy Daugherty. master craftsman of the most intricate offensive in modern football, was at his appointed task of trying to keep track of every block and tackle of every player on the field...
...strong marathoner pulled to with-in five yards of Reider going up the hill, but with one-half mile of flat running to go, Reider applied his potent finishing kick, and opened up ground on the slower Canadian. At the finish line, Reider, who led for most of the 4.4 miles, won going away by 20 yards...
...Dead Sea Scrolls have already raised more dust in Christendom than anything since Darwin, and will certainly kick up more in years to come. It is well known that the scrolls were the sacred documents of a monastic sect living 20 centuries ago at Qumran, in what is now Jordan, and that the members of the sect hid the scrolls in caves to safeguard them from advancing Roman legions. But who were these people of the Dead Sea? The question is momentous, because they lived near the place where John the Baptist preached the Messiah's coming, during...
...rest of the game he was far from a terror. Pitt's quarterbacks, Darrell Lewis and Corny Salvaterra, made Michelosen's pre-game moaning seem prophetic. But late in the third quarter, Pitt recovered another fumble and scored once more. Again they converted, and that kick meant the difference. The Mountaineers, who also scored again, could not make up the 1-point deficit...
...life Shaw wrote his own. He was the most articulate, most relentlessly self-documenting man of his time. The publication of yet another book about G.B.S., therefore, seems both foolhardy and unnecessary. But this one is timely, for it comes at a moment when pygmy critics are beginning to kick the dead giant around (TIME, Aug. 13). Irish Dramatist St. John Ervine suggests both why the critics are acting that way and why they are wrong. One trouble is that Shaw flouted the romantic conception of what a great artist should...