Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard remained on the Bulldogs' tail until the last five minutes of the game, but in the first half the contrast between the two teams was extraordinary. While the Elis executed their play patterns and fast breaks with methodical finesse, the Crimson didn't seem to have any idea of how to get the ball through Yale's defensive net. Kaminsky scored 21 points in the first half and Yale led all the way. Late in the period however, the Crimson whittled the Bulldogs' lead to 28-27, but then Merle McClung and Barry Williams blew easy shots...
...bird overhead, fleeing in panic from the sound of a beer can being opened. Ever so stealthily, the bonefisherman tiptoes across the flats, taking care not to step on sting rays, his freshly baited hook (live shrimp is tasty) all ready, his eyes peeled for a waving tail, a moving shadow, anything that might suggest bonefish. Once in a while he sees the fish before it sees him. Not often...
...pounder on 6-lb.-test line-and releases practically every fish he lands. He even has a technique for reviving a fish that has fought so long and hard that it no longer has the strength to swim. Gently cradling the fish in one hand, he wiggles its tail until it comes around. "Artificial respiration," he explains...
Everyone knows what happens when a would-be suicide closes the garage door, runs a hose into his car from the tail pipe, and sits inside the car with the engine running. Carbon monoxide, in such heavy doses, is one of the deadliest of gases. It gets into the blood and starves the brain of vital oxygen. The victim turns red and usually dies. But doctors have been arguing for decades about the effects of small doses of monoxide poison over long periods. Only recently have they begun to collect evidence that such small doses may do permanent damage...
...rocket engine in the tail boomed the experimental NF-104A jet Starfighter up to 90,000 ft. and the edge of space. Then disaster. The craft went into a flat spin and plummeted out of control. In the cockpit, Air Force Colonel Charles (Chuck) Yeager, 40, first man to fly faster than sound and currently C.O. of the Edwards test-pilot school, stayed with the violently whirling plane, trying to bring it out of the spin. Only at 6,000 ft. did he give up and eject, parachuting minutes later onto the Mojave Desert with burns on the left side...