Word: sneaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long pass connects or a shifty runner is shaken loose for a touchdown. The man in the stands needs a quick eye to spot the subtleties of down-and-out pass patterns (ends charging straight downfield, then suddenly cutting for the sidelines), flaring halfbacks (who sneak through the line of scrimmage to take a pass in the flat) and looping defenses (in which defensive linemen feint to one side before charging to the other...
...second thought there was one thing which had been changed. Without having to crash the gates or sneak under the fence I saw last week's game scot free--thanks to the Radio's grandstand seat...
Unfortunately, he had no knack for rhymed comedy and little gift for seduction, but that did not stop him from trying. To drive himself on, he noted tactical maneuvers with military precision, e.g., the sneak attack camouflaged by an embrace verging on strangulation, accompanied by the lover's deceptively shy whimpering (noted Henri: "If you go about the business calmly, you can't fail"). He also jotted down guiding principles: "Heroes have intervals of fear, poltroons moments of bravery, and virtuous women moments of weakness." But the weak moments came when Henri was not about and his amorous...
...flatly turned down all others because they sought guarantees that he could not obtain or proposed reopening negotiations with the eight other London powers. Said Mendès: "I refuse to have my hands tied." Of the EDC crowd a Mendes supporter said: "These ghouls. They want to sneak into the graveyard...
Record of His Own. Willie the Wonder had long since stopped swinging for the fences. In the last weeks of the season he had been walloping hits through the infield with increasing regularity, hitting the ball wherever it was pitched. Puzzled pitchers could scarcely sneak a bad ball past him; he was turning into the best bad-ball batter since the great Ducky Medwick. His average climbed steadily...