Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game itself was a rather sloppy seesaw affair as a high wind made passing and shooting inaccurate. For most of the game the ball hovered around the midfield stripe as neither team could maintain control of it long enough to mount an effective offense...
...plunged in medias res; and there are no scenes of comic relief. Everything bears directly on the main thread of the plot -- the interaction of the destinies of King Richard himself and of Bolingbroke who becomes Henry IV. We see Richard high on one end of a seesaw, and Bolingbroke on the other. And we sit mesmerized as we witness the inexorable and almost ritualistic shifts of the fulcrum from the force of incident or public opinion, until Bolingbroke finally rises to throne level. Superimposed on this is the further manic-depressive seesawing within Richard's own being...
Hoffmann thought Hughes too anxious to "leap into the millennium," and Waskow too anxious to believe in "the seesaw metaphor." Figuring that the Soviet Union should be expected to act in its military self-interest. Hoffmann urged the continuation of America's deterrent posture and placed his faith in the self-restraint of strategists on both sides...
...game was a study in frustration. A lacklustre first half developed into a seesaw scoring battle between Borchard and Brown's All-Ivy guard, Mike Cingiser. The Crimson pushed ahead 36-34 with two minutes left. But three straight Brown baskets, the last a buzzer-beating steal by Cingiser, put the visitors four points ahead, 40-36, at halftime...
...contest was a fast-paced, seesaw affair, with accurate passing up and down the muddy field. But except for the Crimson-dominated second period, neither team could sustain an offensive drive in the slippery going...