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Moments later, Tayler ripped through the left side of the Brown line, stiff-armed a would-be tackier at the Bruin five, and stopped into the end zone for the second of his four tallies...
...does not as readily absorb into the paper, the ink must either be artificially dried or the presses must be slowed to give the ink time to dry. For years, the fastest web offset presses ran at about one-third the speed of the fastest letter-presses. The tackier offset ink. together with the rubber cylinder, collects paper dust, which can botch a printing job. The web offset process is more wasteful of paper than letterpress. And on long offset-press runs, the ink tends to emulsify with the water played on the impression plate and thus spread until...
...running in all directions at once. "I fake with every part of my body," says the Cleveland Browns' Bobby Mitchell (6 ft., 190 Ibs.). "I use the shoulder shake and I use the head shake and I wiggle the hips. They all help to throw the tackier off balance." For Mitchell, the easiest defensive backs to fool are the fastest of foot. "They come up quickly and commit themselves right away. A slower one is harder to go all the way on. When I've got a blocker in front of me, we try to 'freeze...
...Victoria Crosses awarded to the Indian army. If they could die for Britain in their turbans, asked the Sikhs, could they not be allowed to work in them? Support also came from Manchester's mighty Guardian: an editorial suggested that, with or without caps, no one looked tackier than the average Manchester bus conductor. Asked an indignant letter writer: "If a man is clean, polite and has a sense of duty, what difference does a hat make? Unless, of course, he is on the Transport Committee and requires a hole in it to talk through...
Finally a bowlegged halfback in a white and gold L.S.U. jersey plucked a bouncing punt out of the air on his 11, and All-America Billy Cannon set out for glory. He shrugged off one red-jerseyed tackier, ran right over a second. At midfield, Cannon surprised Mississippi's Fullback Charlie Flowers by cutting back instead of trying to go to the outside. (Admitted Flowers, an all-America candidate himself: "It was like a high school player trying to tackle an All-America. He went through my hands like nothing.") Cannon was all by himself when...