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Cornell began to operate from highly unfavorable field position, as a Scott Coolidge punt was downed on the Big Red one, but even the Cornell veer was rendered ineffective by the showers...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: BIG RED STUNS HARVARD, 9-3 | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

...offense, the Beantowners have three returning starters. Like UMass, the Terriers run a veer offense, but they prefer to use the quarterback option pitchout instead of the halfback option which the Minutemen preferred. Two of the three touchdowns B.U. has scored this year have been in the air, one each to split end Tom Hailey and tight end Steve Richards...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: BU: This Isn't a Hockey Game | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

...lifestyle. He goes by nicknames like "Goober" or "Goat." He disdains neckties as a form of snobbery; when he dresses up, it is to wear a decorated T shirt with newish jeans or, for state occasions, a leisure suit with a colored shirt. If discussions veer beyond football toward substance, he cuts them off with funny stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS: Those Good Ole Boys | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...publish are written by professors and various other academics, and as a tool in their profession, we just assume they'll use it. To use someone else's would seem odd." But Harvard professors are not known for their homogeneity nor their conventionality: there are some who characteristically veer from the norm to write a textbook they adamantly refuse to teach from. Stanley Cavell, chairman of the Philosophy Department and Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, thinks this refusal is fortunate. "If somebody uses their textbook exclusively, you hope they'll have something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Royalties aren't the real incentive | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...Emperor to join the fight against the commercial slaughter of whales.) As the plane drew nearer, the anxious Secret Service was told by air controllers that the pilot was carefully sticking to a legal route down nearby K Street. Even so, agents radioed the command to have the pilot veer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Quiet Gentleman from Japan | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

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