Word: snap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second period, Dudley's John Whittaker tied the game up at 12 to 12 on a long pass from McMorrow. Barbour then piled up Yale's lead with a snap pass to Hager for a touchdown...
Until this year, shrewd centers had attempted to draw defensive linemen offside by pretending to snap the ball. If a player was lured offside by this maneuver, he was guilty of an offside foul, and his team was penalized five yards...
...rule will eliminate such tactics. Once the center has assumed his stance and has adjusted the ball for the snap, he may neither move the ball nor change its position in any way until actually snapping...
...journalism schools the faculty consists largely of unsuccessful newspapermen ... At the worst [the schools] are a fraud, providing snap courses for lazy students; at the best they are a delusion, giving graduates a mistaken notion that they have received valuable training...
...actress fervently hoped that the marriage would end "the unwarranted persecution by the international press which has made our life hell by destroying our privacy." Only the week before, during one of her rare excursions from her apartment, Rossellini had had a brawl with photographers waiting to snap them. Complained Ingrid: "I cannot even take my baby out of this house because I know there will be a battery of photographers badgering us. I cannot even go to take a peep at my baby on the terrace because [of the] photographers...