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...Crimson defense, on a crucial third-and-11 play at the Big Red 32 allowed Furbush to escape up the right side for 18 yards and the first down. Five plays later. Marinaro broke across for another touchdown, his fifth to tie the Ivy record for most in one game...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: MARINARO SCORES FIVE TIMES Crimson Upset at Ithaca | 10/20/1969 | See Source »

...troops were fair game for anyone with political ambitions. In A.D. 196 and again in A.D. 296, the legions left their posts to follow imperial pretenders. Each time the barbarians immediately swept south across the unmanned wall and ravaged towns and villas. Decaying loyalties were also responsible for the third-and last-debacle. Agents called the Arcani, or secret ones (whom Divine identifies as "part of the Roman CIA"), apparently took bribes, conspiring with enemy tribesmen who were forming a broad anti-Roman alliance in Britain. In A.D. 367, the wall fell by assault. This time the legions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something There Is, Etc. | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...fire a strong braking blast. Following two circuits of the moon, the engine will be used again to move Apollo's orbit to 70 miles above the cratered lunar landscape, which the astronauts will survey and photograph. Eight revolutions later, the engine will be called on for a third-and crucial-firing. That jolt will enable the Apollo to escape the moon's gravitational pull and start the three astronauts speeding back to earth. Just 7½ days after takeoff, Apollo 8 should parachute into the Pacific. Total distance traveled (exclusive of the ten rides around the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Christmas at the Moon | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Hoffman, who had broken up a pass in his flat plays before, blitzed on the next play and dumped the unsuspecting Robertson. Hoffman stormed in from the blind side again on the third-and-32 situation to bury the Big Red passer for good...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 10/24/1967 | See Source »

...Wynne's first play at safety, he stepped in front of Smith at the Harvard 7 to grab Tom Thornton's on-target pass and race back 20 yards. When second-stringer Danny Lucca tossed a third-and-10 flare pass to right end John Cambest on the next series, Wynne dove on it for his second steal. On B.U.'s final series of the half, Wynne snatched another Thornton pass to Smith on the Harvard 15 to sarve a certain touchdown...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Pass Thefts Foil Terriers | 10/9/1967 | See Source »

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