Word: squirts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once he reads his key and analyzes the play, the defensive lineman reacts -and reacts fast, trying to beat his opponent to the block, catch him off-balance, squirt past him before he can plant himself. To confuse blockers, defenders will "stunt," or loop around each other; they may charge high to hurdle a block, or duck low to "submarine" under. They clutch at shoulder pads and jerseys, trying to spin blockers aside and clear a path to the ballcarrier. They have, in fact, become so adept at slipping blocks that not even the punter, standing 15 yds. back...
Thigh-Slappers. Hope gave up journalism for a succession of other careers. As a soda jerk he was just a squirt. He laid an egg as a chicken plucker. As for boxing-well, as he says, "that's where I learned to waltz...
Next day, still intent on shutting down the induction center, the crowd defied police orders to move out and was subdued by a flying wedge of helmeted patrolmen wielding billy clubs and squirt guns loaded with Mace-a chemical crowd-dispersal spray that stings, sickens and temporarily blinds anyone it hits in the face. Shattered and shaken, the dissenters broke and ran, leaving bloody-headed buddies-and a dozen hapless newsmen-crumpled in the streets. The picketers resumed their vigil, forcing the draft center to bus its inductees right to the door, then double-time the soldiers-to-be through...
Confident Gait. Probably nothing kept him happier than Navajo, the rebellious cutting horse owned by a stable Guy patronized. Clarence Smith remembers that Guy had always been "horse-happy." "I have a saddleback," says the father, "from crawling around and playing horse for him when he was a tiny squirt." When Guy found that he was one of the few riders who could manage the stubborn pinto, ownership became the only way out. Clarence Smith bought Guy the horse, and it became, in the father's words, an "only brother" to Guy, and later the "common denominator" between...
...pairs. They laugh and joke a lot; and they don't mind waiting fifteen minutes for a hamburger. If you're in a hurry, try the counter. For amusement there are two highly comical drink machines, one containing grape, the other red punch. Always in motion, they slop and squirt the liquid up, down, all around. On especially good days, they become phallic; the punch machine plays the male to the grape machine's female...