Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, whenever Cornell needed a crucial first down, it went to the air, and successfully exploited Harvard's deficient short coverage. Park has been drilling the defensive backs in practice all week. They should hold up. They must...
...Harvard will have to move the ball this afternoon as no team has moved against Dartmouth this fall. Harvard's defense will have to stop Dartmouth as no defense has stopped it this fall. In short, Harvard will have to play as it has not played at any time this season if it hopes to beat the Green. It may be capable of doing so, but the mere fact that the squad is emotionally peaked for the Green does not necessarily guarantee...
...Finding names for all the products is becoming a major preoccupation. More than 370,000 trademarks are registered with the U.S. Patent Office, and the number is growing by 20,000 a year. Having all but exhausted the dictionary, marketers are increasingly turning to the computer to produce suitably short, evocative non-words. A typical computer printout (see above) reads: EMBO, EMBU, EMCA, EMCE...
...parts of the building. Claudia and Heron ask to be married, but the father superior refuses in great heat. Claudia and Heron, likewise in great heat, awake in the night to find that the abbey has been deserted. In desperation they perform the nuptial ceremony themselves, for time grows short and the soldiers surely approach. Claudia and Heron cling to each other like the very vines as the enemy closes in on them. Neither will ever...
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