Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson defenders did a lot of last-minute shifting around along the line of scrimmage, and this seemed to confuse their opponents considerably. One way or another, they completely stopped the Tigers on all line-plunge attempts; and they rendered conspicuously ineffective Princeton's "fullback-spin" series, which had proved so devastating in last year's game...
Tiley is most dangerous on plays run from Princeton's "fullback-spin" series. These maneuvers begin with Tiley spinning half-way around to his left and faking a handoff to the tailback. This delays the run briefly, while the Tiger linemen attend to opening a hole at the desired spot among the defenders...
...Spin-Stabilization. All other hardware seems to have functioned perfectly. The second stage, a considerably modified second stage of the ill-starred Vanguard, pushed the vehicle to 188 miles above the earth while small vernier rockets, set askew, made it spin on its axis at no r.p.m. The function of this spin-stabilization, like the spin of a rifle bullet, was to keep the vehicle from tumbling on its journey through space...
...painters used their year abroad to feast their eyes, rather than to pick up the mannerisms of a foreign school. They soaked in "the golden glow of Rome," tingled to the spirit of Paris that "sped up the spin of idea and image." James Harvey in Egypt quarried into Coptic and Islamic art, felt that "through these art forms one sees the landscape of the Near East." Daniel Dickerson painted dhoti-clad Indians in a Rajasthan marketplace, tired porters in a Bangalore railway station...
...birds of a feather, a rainbow together we'll find." When they call their favorite disk jockey, U.S. fans hardly know what to ask for. But whether the title comes out "Domingo," "Nelly Blue" or "Blue Nell Rides a Blue Pinto," even a monolingual jock knows enough to spin...