Word: markered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once he barreled across the scrimmage line, all 6 ft. 8 in., 285 lbs. of him, as the crowd chanted: "Kill, Bubba, kill!" But Charles Aaron ("Bubba") Smith, the former defensive left end for the Baltimore Colts, collided with an aluminum yard marker in 1972, suffered a severe knee injury, and was later forced to give up the game. Now, in an unprecedented legal case, Smith, 32, is asking $1.5 million from the N.F.L. in a negligence suit. He claims that officials failed to remove the marker in time when the action flowed toward the sidelines. To help his case...
Still, Vellucci says he has weathered two previous crises in his life, and he claims tomorrow will be no different. He's spent the past months throwing parties and sitting at his kitchen table with a magic marker and ruler to draw his own campaign posters. If Vellucci loses, it will be only to a much more conservative, pro-landlord independent, and, as one liberal councilor explained the difference between them and Vellucci, "Those people made it and they are concerned about being with people who made it. Al Vellucci always stayed in the same home in East Cambridge...
Lebanese leftist troops guard the bridge over the Litani, a slow-flowing, dark green stream. No sign or marker indicates that this is the "red line"; the Israelis have warned the Syrians to stay north of it. Beyond doubt, the Syrians are heeding the warning. The Lebanese troops, young, unshaven, carefully check the trunk of our car. Satisfied, they wave us on with a tired look in their eyes...
...Stoker's tale, Dracula is destroyed in a combined Anglo-American gesture: Jonathan Marker, an Englishman, decapitates Dracula with his great kukri knife in the same moment that Quincey Morris, a young Texan, drives his bowie knife into Dracula's heart. Stakes are used against vampires in Stoker's novel, but only against ravishingly attractive females...
Gordie Nelson got a feed from Pedroni for the next tally, and then notched an unassisted marker to tie the game, 6-6. The next goal would surely be the most important of the game, and unfortunately, it was Dartmouth that got it. Middie Bruce Bierman did the honors only 29 seconds later while Harvard's Al Senior watched from the penalty...