Word: outgun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dangerous foray into enemy territory, the men's varsity basketball expeditionary force will try to outgun Yale at New Haven. The JV's send out an advance force at 5:30 p.m., and the first shots in the varsity tilt will be fired...
...idea that there is something terrible in having the citizenry outgun the police is even more disturbing. Of those places where the reverse is the case (Chile, Cuba, Spain, the U.S.S.R.), banning most firearms and other weapons has facilitated the trampling of more basic freedoms...
...second time in three weeks, Harvard's once-solid defense broke down, leaving the Crimson to rely on the ability of the offense to outgun the opposition. And as in the game against Penn two weeks ago, Stoeckel and McInally proved they're the best guns in the East. Ivy League at a Glance Harvard 5-1 Dartmouth 5-1 Penn 4-2 Yale 4-2 Brown 3-3 Cornell 2-4 Columbia 1-5 Princeton...
...swiftest heavyweight around, dance out of destruction's way? Can he utilize his superior reach to stave off the bull-like onslaught of his attacker? Can he ever wear down the relentless machine that is Joe Frazier? Conversely, can Ali, who is able to hit sharply with either hand, outgun Frazier, who is more a one-armed fighter? Can, in short, the boxer beat the slugger...
...vision: the stylistic brilliance, the quick substitutions of abstract for concrete; the sweeping flights, within single phrases, from the commonplace to the sublime (Hemingway's brains are "scattered now in every atmosphere"); metaphors that reach out and grasp every aspect of common experience; and the quick observations that outgun entire works of lesser writers (as when Frank McGee is described as having "a personality all reminiscent . . . of a coach of a rifle team"). As usual, Mailer's observations are passionate rather than considered, emerging from the heat of the moment; inevitably, many of them seem wildly wrong. But the technical...