Word: squibbing
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...word. Tommy ordered his boys to kick on third down, pass on fourth. He drilled them endlessly in the techniques of the quick kick and the "squib punt"-kicked ever so gently-that is almost impossible to field, because it travels only 30 yds. in the air, hits the ground and rolls around crazily. He was even accused of rigging microphones in his players' helmets, so that he could direct the action from the bench. And then he introduced Quarterback Beban, a spectacular sophomore who ran for 590 yds., passed for 1,483, and sparked the Bruins...
...break relations with Cuba.- Of all Latin America's Presidents, Arosemena has been probably the most sympathetic to Castro, and when the Ecuadorian took power last November, Fidel chortled that "it must have hit Washington like a 65-megaton bomb." But now Castro fired his own damp squib: "Arosemena was on some occasions completely intoxicated from Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst of feast and drunken carousals. Any day, in one of these carousals the military will grab him and take him to an embassy [where] he will wake...
...Bellow, Henry Miller, James Agee and Jack Kerouac-and for writers anywhere who have felt inhibited by form and classic restraint. Whitman tapped a gusher, and no one reading the letters can doubt that he knew just what he was doing. To a correspondent he gleefully quoted a derisive squib from a critic, which said that he had arrived in New York "carrying the blue cotton umbrella of the future...
...kick-off: If Yale kicks, end John Stocking will boot the now-famous Yale "squib-kick," an on-side kick that starts bouncing around crazy-like on the opposing team's 40 yard line. His kicks are usually off to the right in which case Crimson left end Bob Boyda will be fielding a lot of grounders today...
...Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass for any serious assaults upon Winchell, trotted out the photo and a sour-prefaced retraction. Though "happy to set the record straight," Paar recalled a "complete falsehood" that Winchell had hung on Paar in 1955 and had never corrected. (The squib: "Friends of the Jack Paars ... are worrying".) "Most damaging to any family man," snapped Jack...