Word: snap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale also likes to shift into variations of its 5-2 defense while the opposing quarterback calls his signals, making the defense difficult to read, but also making it vulnerable to a quick snap...
With only four minutes left in the game, quarterback Rod Foster walked up to the line of scrimmage and blinked at the undefended, open field stretching out ahead of him. Foster called an audible, took the snap, and took off straight ahead for a 78-yard touchdown...
...goers were young-looking, most of them barely out of high school by their appearance, though the organization's upper age limit is 40. A lanky boy with a goatee jutting from his chin and a cowlick on the back of his head walked among the chatting delegates, hawking snap-shots of an astronaut standing on the moon next to a perfectly erect American flag. "They're copies made from a slide I got from an outfit in Houston," he explained. "Seventy-five cents...
...Bedouin soldiers stalked the streets, seeking guerrillas and occasionally looting shops. Many had their faces blackened, a traditional means of preventing identification and forestalling later feuds with the families of their victims. Amman became a city of sordid sounds-the crumbling of limestone buildings under the artillery barrage, the snap of rifle fire and the whoosh of shells, the cries of the wounded, and the wailing of women who had seen their families slain. In two of the biggest camps for Palestinian refugees, guerrillas insisted that at least 7,000 people had been killed by army shelling...
...defense smothered Northeastern, but the Huskies were not exactly a powerhouse. Northeastern failed to score after a bad snap from the Harvard center was fumbled by Foster on the Harvard one-yard line...