Word: linesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost exactly the same instant on the sleek turf courts of the Sea Bright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club in New Jersey, two different linesmen, on two different courts, cried "Out!" Both balls were hit on match points. One was struck by Don McNeill, national champion, ranked No. 1 by virtue of his victory in the singles on Forest Hills grass courts last year; the other by Frank Parker, national clay court champion, who has won eight of the nine hard-court tournaments he has played in this year...
When Stone was an undergraduate at Massachusetts Agricultural College, botanists were obsessed with taxonomy-classification of plants. But to Stone a tree was not a specimen but a dynamic organism influenced by a complex of environmental factors. In those days linesmen were stringing new telephone and power wires along U.S. streets, hacking mortal wounds in trees and often electrocuting them with leaky wires. New-laid gas pipes, too, were spreading out, poisoning roots along many a shady avenue. And several plagues of insect pests, chiefly in Massachusetts, quickened interest in guarding the health of trees...
...Coach Shaughnessy works out his plays to music. Basis for his system is a waltz rhythm: e.g., on an off-tackle play, the back getting the ball counts one-two-three steps, turns on his outside foot for balance, hits the line of scrimmage at the point where the linesmen (likewise counting one-two-three) have opened a hole. The whole team nod their heads in waltz time...
...Harlowmen, two linesmen, Dick Pfister and Burgy Ayres, who until today have heard the referee's starting tweet from secure positions on the bench, will this afternoon held down berths of the opening lineup. Pfister has been recalled from the ranks of the blocking backs to plug a gap at right guard. Ayres gets the nod over Lone Star Diets mostly because of his more accurate snap-backs. Diets has shown himself a lion on defense in heavy duty games thus far when Ayres was out with an injury.Pete Elsor's smashing play has won him a regular starting berth...
...dummy scrimmage, he alternately called plays and held one of the bags to ascertain whether or not his linesmen were charging with enough punch. When hit viciously by two blockers and bowled over into the dirt on one play, he picked himself up, evidently well satisfied on that score...