Word: man-to-man
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Even more important, Harvard started to show the strains of working against a constantly nagging man-to-man defense. After nearly every attempt to work the ball in was frustrated, the Crimson resorted to driving desperately towards the basket, a technique that netted few points but numerous fouls...
...very fast ball club with smooth ball handlers and great passing accuracy, Yale can be expected to use short jumps and slants against the Crimson's switching man-to-man defense. Wilson has been putting in extra time this week on defense in an effort to control the Yalie speedsters...
West Berlin, but the British have let it be known that they would support a man-to-man meeting between Kennedy and Khrushchev...
...defending against the Huskies, the Crimson will stick with its new switching man-to-man. The defense worked well against Williams but collapsed when several players, especially Lynch and Bocrhard, got into trouble on fouls and had to play their men loosely...
...reasons why they are preferable to personal diplomacy. It is not simply that Rusk is needed to coordinate policy in Washington, though that is also true. The question is whether Kennedy will be pressured into the kind of thinking that characterized and crippled the conduct of diplomacy under Eisenhower. Man-to-man talks gave leaders valuable knowledge of each other, but they bred foolish hopes and symbolic solutions to grave problems. The personal touch, the smile to the cheering crowds, the joint communique--all are hallmarks of a tradition which thinks reassuring people more important than facing reality...