Word: stacked
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...skipped individual drills and worked on team and kicking drills for 40 minutes each. There was a lot of yelling, with some discontent among the ends and linebackers when the coaches threw in a new defense. It was the "stack," with linebackers right in back of the tackles. That left a lot of pressure on the ends on outside plays, but jammed the middle. There were complaints: "It's too late in the week to relearn another defense." We had used the same formation as late as the Penn game, a month before...
...queued up to sip interprandial Scotch and sup on cafeteria boeuf bourguignon, Director James J. Rorimer showed off a colonnaded Spanish Renaissance patio, donated by the late, former Met president George Blumenthal, and the new Thomas J. Watson library, whose 155,000 volumes make it the largest art-literature stack in the Western Hemisphere. Topping off his week, Rorimer received the city's Medallion of Honor from Mayor Wagner...
Fire spread quickly from plane to plane because they stood so close together; sandbags would have saved many from shrapnel, but such protection did not exist because, U.S. officers explained lamely, there was insufficient local labor to fill and stack them...
This year's freshman crop has more than its share of 160-1b, guards. And there isn't the usual stack of press raves about the 5'11" scatbacks who tore up their league with broken-field acrobatics...
...eliminated the inequalities of Western-style jurisprudence and established a fairer system of justice. Evidence to corroborate the claim is almost nonexistent. What the visitor to a Soviet courtroom finds, says a lanky young American visitor named George Feifer, is not fairness but blatantly biased procedures that stack the deck against a criminal defendant...