Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defensive back made his second pickoff early in the third quarter, when he shadowed Fahnestock perfectly on a long post pattern to the Harvard goal line. Army quarterback Jerryl Bennett, under heavy pressure at the Harvard 31, slightly underthrew Fahnestock and Delgadillo leapt up and grabbed the potential touchdown away...
...pattern the student drives at 30 m.p.h., with two cars following. Over a hill and 50 yards ahead a barricade looms. At the same time one of the cars behind passes, distracting the student driver. He grows breathless, loses control, can't think. Can't do anything, in fact. Finally he just stops the car. "All you learned just dropped out of your head," Scott chides. The next try is much better. He spins the car into a good J turn, evading a sudden roadblock, and escapes. When Scott concedes that the move was a "reasonable reaction...
...next two rounds followed the same pattern, with Holmes throwing and Ali absorbing the brunt of the blows. The seventh round was Ali's best of the fight, and even then he could only manage to stay even with the defending champ. Both men circled each other in ring center, with neither man able to gain an advantage, though Holmes' punches were obviously stiffer...
...take the high road and we'll take the low road," is the advice a presidential candidate usually gets from his top aides and running mate. But in his recent campaigning, President Carter has reversed that pattern, slashing with sharp hyperbole at Ronald Reagan while Jody Powell and other aides anxiously try to dampen his rhetorical excesses...
...addition, the Stealth is said to use special materials to insulate hot parts of the engine and thus shield them from infrared or heat-seeking devices. According to the Armed Forces Journal, the exhaust nozzles are bent at odd angles, dispersing the fumes in a pattern that confuses heat sensors, such as those aboard Soviet ground-or air-launched missiles. Stealth employs electronic countermeasures-secret, computerized devices that send out confusing radar signals...