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...make the series work, the quarterback must react to the development of the defense and chose his option in a split second. If the quarterback is capable of this, the "outside belly" series is extremely tough to defense. Yovicsin may also employ an "inside belly" series now and then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yovicsin to Rely on Potent Running Attack | 9/29/1962 | See Source »

...This fear in us is deep and indispensable--indispensable when we are climbing mountains or looking out windows, and so deep that we react to its promptings instantaneously and without thought...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: The Mad Sport Of Skydiving | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

...audience at Cohasset on opening night didn't quite know how to react to the shabby proceedings, and at the end of the play those who had stayed through it, applauded with less than warm enthusiasm. The Cohasset Music Circus proudly called "The Two-Headed Baby" its first world premiere. There is, then, the satisfaction that this play has not been produced anywhere else and probably never will...

Author: By Richmond Crinkley, | Title: 'The Two-Headed Baby' | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

...recently: "No one wishes to return to the old, harsh disciplines of unemployment and grinding poverty. But unless their place is taken by the self-discipline of a responsible society, the whole basis of a free economy-and therefore of a free society-is in jeopardy." The nation may react to such Maudling talk as it did to Selwynism, but, grins the new Chancellor, "I'm an optimist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MAUDLING: An Undeserved Reputation for Indolence | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...like small bar magnets. When they are placed in a magnetic field, they tend to line up like a bunch of compass needles. If the magnetic field changes direction, it tries to pull the protons around with it. But protons have a mysterious property called "spin" that makes them react like small spinning wheels. When the magnetic field changes direction, they do not follow obediently. Instead, they resist the turning motion, just as if they were gyro wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Wheels, No Friction | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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