Word: optionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia's cultists, the Gray plan had a fatal defect: it offered local option on desegregation, and the Washington suburb of Arlington, for one, announced that it would integrate. Urged on by the hard core of his political following, Harry Byrd decreed against Virginia's white children being thus mixed in school (although many of them play unaffectedly with Negro youngsters from babyhood). At Byrd's bidding, Governor Stanley called a special legislative session and presented it with 23 bills, setting up a "defense in depth" against desegregation. As passed by the legislature, the program ensured...
...less entertaining variety shows have managed to survive. But last week, when Winchell's latest Trendex slumped from his original 21.1 to 15.9, his sponsors, Toni and Old Gold, decided that the "little people" were thinning out. They notified him that they would drop his show when his option comes up in five weeks. Cost of tuning out: $75,000 in severance...
...picked up 15 enemy fumbles, turned nine of them into scores. In between, they fielded a fast, shifty, single-wing offense, built around the talents of Quarterback Johnny Majors. His unerring quick kicks became a sharp offensive weapon; his passes were almost always on target. On rollout, run-pass option plays he gave the best defense fits. His pixyish, mincing gait was faster than it looked, and he proved to be one of those rare backs who can run in one direction and fire a pass in the other without breaking stride...
When the Elis used their favorite plays, the end sweep, or the quarterback option around end, they were ensured of good yardage. The Blue blockers could always take out the backer-up and keep the end in, opening up a tremendous hole, which runners like McGill and Ward could burst through almost untouched...
...combination of Yale speed and blocking ability was used in the second period for another touchdown when, with a second down and nine yards to go situation on his own 22, quarterback Winterbauer, on the option play, pitched out to McGill. The blocking in the line took out the backer-up and the end, and McGill was sprung loose...