Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though outshooting the Big Green in the third, Harvard let a 4-2 second-period margin balloon into the 7-2 final score...
Pleasant Valley has another touchdown nullified by a minor penalty, but in the game's closing seconds, a third touchdown pass by the Bears' 140-lb. sophomore quarterback stays on the Scoreboard. The final score: Palmerton 19, Pleasant Valley 7. Yet it is not until Dr. Verbruggen follows the Bears into the locker room and makes a final check on the night's bumps and bruises that he is sure all his conditioning has paid off. There are no injuries that won't pretty well heal over the weekend. "Football is a game that...
...first burst of cheering over Jimmy Carter's save-the-dollar program, some football-fan bankers compared the President to a quarterback who had thrown a spectacular pass from his own 1-yd. line for a touchdown. Last week it became evident that the quick score only got the Carter Comets back into a game that had been turning into a rout. To win, Carter must now call signals effectively for a long, grind-it-out-on-the-ground drive against the awesome defense of the Inflation Bears...
...cloth as Dancer Gelsey Kirkland? Can the public be persuaded to accept, as a heartwarming example of the human spirit's indomitability, her triumph over what appear to be terminal leg cramps on opening night of her first starring part in a ballet? Can another big crash-bang score by Bill Conti once again drown out a multitude of dramatic sins and carry this picture to the popular heights achieved by Director Avildsen's most recent work, the ineffable Rocky...
...successful is their counteroffensive that when the score reaches 6-0 for Eddie-Vasily, their former employers are also compelled to join forces. Only then do the CIA-KGB apparatchiks realize that the deadly duo have switched roles: Eddie has taken on the Soviets, while Vasily is vacuuming the Washington spooks. Neither elite can predict how, when or against whom the hunted pair will deploy a lethal list of weapons that include camera-fired fléchettes, boomslang venom, plastique-packed tea bags, flame-throwing hair dryers, nerve gas and atomic tennis balls. Nor can they figure who or what...