Word: ramming
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...decrease in serious brain injury among all football players since 1958. Research by Dr. Joseph Torg, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Sports Medicine Center, led to rule changes in 1976 that banned "spearing," in which a player uses his helmet as a battering ram to tackle an opponent. Torg had shown that spearing was a leading cause of neck injuries (indeed, experts are debating whether Byrd accidentally speared his teammate). Since the ban, the number of permanent cervical-cord injuries among high school and college players has plummeted from 34 reported in 1976 to just one last year...
...ulgar cultural nationalists...like Allan Bloom or Leonard Jeffrey...are whistling in the wind." Whether they falsely assert Anglo-American culture as universal (a la Bloom) or "lay claim to the ideal of 'blackness' as an ideology or a quasi religion, totalized and essentialized into a protofascist battering ram supervised by official thought police" (a la Jeffries), they fail to ready the young for the world they will face...
...apparent reason other than for us to see her ram into a car on a bicycle, there is Wayne's ex-girlfriend Stacey (Lara Flynn Boyle), which evokes one pressing question in the viewers minds: How is it possible that Boyle's character would date Wayne? Perhaps a slight miscasting occurred in getting the stunning Boyle (whose other credits include Twin Peaks and a Playboy centerfold) to play the role of an obsequious, leeching girlfriend...
...violence was apparently touched off by the death earlier this month of two young men who were killed while being chased by police at speeds of up to 125 m.p.h. Relatives said the youths had been taking part in another form of automobile delinquency, "ram raiding," which involves driving stolen cars right into stores and then looting them...
When it's time for a party, the furniture goes. The ram's head on the wall goes. Everything goes besides the pool table (which is carefully covered...