Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive bogged down here, with the Orange and Black line at last putting up the resistance for which it has become famous. As Van Oudenallen waited for a snap to punt, time ran out with Harvard still holding a 7-0 advantage...
...drizzle that came down throughout the first half did not seem to dappen competitive spirits, but it did hamper ball handling. For a pleasant change, it was not Harvard that suffered from fumblitis, however. On several important occasions Princeton killed its own motion with bobbles, usually committed on the snap. The Crimson, which has suffered chronic difficulty in holding the ball, fumbled but once in the half, and on that occasion Harvard recovered...
...state's Republicans were not exactly frantic when they learned that the Democrats were running a politically untested university professor in last week's special congressional election to fill the seat of Representative Hjalmar C. Nygaard, who died last summer. It would, the G.O.P. thought, be a snap...
...Hope actually belongs on some sort of Mount Rushmore, his nose cantilevered on reinforcing rods near Groucho Marx's cigar and Jack Benny's bow. Hope is the longest-running one-line stand-up snap-it-out comedian in the history of show business. His jokes now have more polish than brass, but they keep coming, with energy and perfect timing. He says he'll never quit: "If I retired, I'd be surrounded by about nine psychiatrists. I'm not retiring until they carry me away, and I'll have a few routines...
...Nothing to It." Then it was time for the tricks-the beautiful feints and cuts that only halfbacks are supposed to perform. With Cleveland on the Giant 32, Quarterback Frank Ryan called, "Option seven left." The snap, the pitchout, and Jimmy Brown was off, barreling through the left side of the Giants' line. Three Giants had him trapped at the 22. They rushed in. But Jimmy was gone. In one of those incredible flashes of grace that light up professional football, the huge man had pirouetted nearly 180° and was sprinting across the field to his right, looking...