Word: passing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Higginbottom scored the varsity's first goal only 38 seconds after the opening face-off, receiving a pass from Mike Graney and banking in a shot off Jumbo goalie Kenny Tondreau's pads. When Fischer scored, less than a minute later, it seemed a massacre was in the making, but the referee called the tally back, ruling that a Crimson player was in the Tufts crease...
Another reason: the U.S. found in Deputy Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, onetime Wall Street investment banker, a foreign aid field commander with the tactical skill needed-and deployed-to prevail upon Congress to pass 1958's $3.3 billion foreign aid appropriation. As much as it dramatized Communism's infiltration of strategic, oil-rich Venezuela, the mobbing of Vice President Nixon in Caracas (TIME, May 26) underlined the urgent need for U.S. help for orderly economic growth in the hemisphere. Needed in Latin America, Asia and Africa alike was a new climate of incentive plans...
...call cost us 80?," says Colts' General Manager Don Kellett. "We've come out so far ahead, it looks like a swindle." With a shot at the starting quarterback job part way through the 1956 season. Unitas, now grown to 190 Ibs., compiled the highest pass completion percentage (55.6) of any rookie pro passer in history. In 1957 he led the league in passing yardage (2,550) and touchdown passes (24), was named the league's most valuable player. This season, more than any other man, he has been the spark of the Colts' title drive...
...thick and 4 ft. wide. Apparently bent on a rest, he started to clamber out of the 6-ft. pit. But. at just that moment, the huge gravestone toppled forward and crashed down on the luckless Kawamura. What the fortuneteller had prophesied had, in a fashion, come to pass: Kawamura's bad luck was at last at an end. He was dead...
...being colorful and being punchy?" But the Rocket, bearing down on opposing defensemen, is still one of hockey's great sights. Says the Canadiens' Executive Frank Selke Jr.: "Richard sets off a chain reaction whenever he gets the puck, even if it's just a routine pass. It's strange and wonderful, the way that he communicates with the crowd." Explains the Rocket simply: "I hate to lose...