Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson starting units were hit hard by injuries. Defensive adjuster Steve Golden heads the list of walking wounded, with a neck injury sustained while tacking Columbia fullback Rick Assaf. Golden, who earned his keep Saturday by clobbering standout Lion receiver Jesse Parks every time he came off the line from scrimmage, will not practice this week and will probably not play against Cornell...
...Says Veteran Receiver Don Maynard, Namath's favorite target over the years: "Everything you hear about Namath's personal life, divide it. Everything you hear about his professional life, multiply it." Not that Joe is an incipient St. Christopher, whose image in metal he wears round his neck. True, he turned down the drinks pressed upon him by coaches and friends two weeks ago in Houston with a nonchalant, "Haven't you heard? Tomorrow is game day." But the grin and the drawl were the purest Namath insouciance...
...idolaters everywhere have tried to imitate. Yet there is a discernible difference in the Namath style. He now says things like "I pray every night when I go to bed -when I can." Like wayward Tom, Joe Willie has cheated the various nooses that could have slipped round his neck-by the simple expedient of growing...
Quarterback Frank Guerra banged up his neck Saturday, and his status is also uncertain for Columbia. Guerra was injured when he was upended by a tackler. He landed on his neck and the tackler landed...
...dumbness," Shaw wrote in a moment of rare but convincing humility. "It is only in moments of inspiration that we get out a sentence. All the rest is padding." Here is the confession of the last of the Victorian papas, who took his age by the scruff of the neck and pummeled and thumped the little monster into a 20th that frightened even