Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fouts took off like one of his own passes. Coryell installed a sophisticated passing offense, a "tree" system that sends swarms of receivers downfield to move across predetermined "branches." The system has no hierarchy of primary and secondary receivers; rather, the quarterback is expected to study defensive reaction, sweep the "tree" with his eyes in a clockwise motion and determine which pass catcher is open...
...there an opera house in the world that boasts a better orchestra than Vienna's? Whether in the iridescent pulsations of Salome or the silky, intimate lyricism of Figaro, or the architectural sweep of Fidelio, the orchestra played like a first-rate symphonic ensemble - which, of course, is what it is. When not in the opera pit, it is the renowned Vienna Philharmonic. With Bernstein again on the podium, it excelled last week in a highly dramatic, virtuoso performance of Beethoven's Ninth. Bernstein tended to heighten what needed no heightening, but by the time the final movement...
...long run, penalties beat the Winthrop squad. Their offsides infraction gave Eliot another chance following a missed field goal attempt from the nine. The penalty moved the ball to the four, and Fitzpatrick scored on the next play on a four yard sweep...
...play later, Brown's Rick Villella, who baffled the Crimson with 121 yds. rushing on 31 attempts, took off on a power sweep and ran over the Harvard defense for a 36-yd. touchdown and a 7-6 Bruin lead...
...record is nearly as impressive in what Thomas Carlyle called the "dismal science." Since the establishment of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 1968, Americans have carried off eight of the 17 medals awarded. In the most impressive U.S. Nobel coup, seven Americans made a clean sweep of the awards in 1976, winning in economics, literature and all of the sciences (no Peace Prize was awarded that year...