Word: lineman
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...pieces that made his name--as in the climax to the delightful The Matrimaniac (1916): his fiance is locked in a hotel room; the preacher is in jail; the police have chased Doug up a telephone pole; so he tightrope-walks on the telephone wires, persuades a lineman to plug in a conference call to the jail and the hotel, and voila, they're married...
...Robert] Kennedy fell...The gun, waving wildly, kept pumping bullets, and found five other human targets. Eight men in all, including Rafer Johnson, an Olympic champion, and Roosevelt Grier, a 300-lb. Los Angeles Rams football lineman, attempted to overpower the slight but lithe assailant. Johnson finally knocked the pistol out of the stubborn hand [and together with Grier held the suspect] spread-eagled on the counter. Several R.F.K. supporters tried to kill the man with their hands. Johnson and Grier fended them off. Someone had the presence of mind to shout: 'Let's not have another Oswald!' Johnson pocketed...
...goal is to get the business community and educators together using athletes as a nice tie-in," says Ruth, winner of the 1985 Outland Trophy as the nation's best collegiate lineman...
Junior Sean Riley, a two-year starter at offensive lineman, was named the captain of the Harvard's 1996 football team. The announcement was made at the team's end-of-season banquet, held at the Harvard Club of Boston last night...
Some athletes do their work subtly, unnoticed. A tough, skilled offensive lineman comes to mind...