Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier in the same fourth quarter, a center soared over Harvard punter Mike Hallock's head and on into the end zone. Hallock ran it out to the three, but one play later Bob Thomas swept left end to score for Dartmouth. Paul Kiely converted...
...offensive formations. Blackman's club uses all the varietes of the T-formation, and the coach also bills himself as the inventor of the "V" formation, with the fullback playing just a step in back of the line for better blocking power. Against Boston University this year, Dartmouth ran out of nine different offensive formations in its first nine plays...
...Medal for Kenya. There was still enough glory to go around. No fewer than 28 nations had something shiny to be proud of. "I couldn't go home without a medal," panted Cuba's Enrique Figuerola, who ran the race of his life to finish second behind Bob Hayes in the 100-meter dash. Japan swept three gold medals in Western-style wrestling. Rumania's leggy Iolanda Balas broke her own Olympic high-jumps record by 2½ in., soaring 6 ft. 2¾ in., and Kenya's Wilson Kiprugut won his new country...
...York Stock Exchange's private luncheon club. Brokers dropped their napkins and scurried to telephone their offices, where orders to sell were already piling up. In the next two hours the Dow-Jones industrial average plunged more than 11 points, to 861, and the highspeed ticker ran up to 27 minutes late. Professionals and the big institutions quickly moved in to shop for bargains, helped the market recoup half its loss by day's end. Next day, despite the news from Peking and London, the small investors came back in and bought so heavily that the market gained...
...spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy slogger" to Shelley's middle, and the poet turned tail and ran. Not many years later, Gronow reports with disinterest, young Styles was driven mad by fleas and heat during the Peninsular War and cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor...