Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly the ballet master whispered to us from the wing. We backed off the stage and took hold of the cart containing the bridge and groom of the marriage ceremony. As we made the are across the stage, dancers whirled about us. "Hurry up," they whispered. We did not almost sent the cart careening into the orchestra pit. Putting the cart down, we leaned back in our most graceful posture of the evening. The happy couple spread their arms to the audience and the curtain fell...
...game for muscleheads. The men who play for Duffy Daugherty know differently. On autumn Saturdays, when the chips are down, the Spartans play a game as intricate and demanding as any yet devised. Where other teams are satisfied to practice and perfect a single style of attack-the single wing, which piles blockers into a bludgeoning phalanx ahead of the ball carrier; the T formation, with its quick-opening plays and tricky hand-off s; the split-T, which spreads the defense for exasperating option plays-Michigan State uses all three and adds even more. At any moment Duffy...
Commenting on the Mau Mau incidents in Kenya, Mboya said, "By the use of military power, we have suppressed the militant wing of revolt, but we have done nothing to eliminate the conditions of the present crisis...
...offense, relying more on deception than the old single-wing did, was without much sparkle, except for a touchdown drive in the last period. The sudden switch in formations was especially rough on quarterbacks Matt Botsford and John Simourian who, understandably, lacked the finesse found in most Ivy quarterbacks...
...fact, it was a pass from Botsford to Gianelly, the only varsity completion, and one of the few Gianelly has ever caught, which set up the score. On a fourth and four on Tufts 27, Gianelly went out on a wing, and took a pass on the left flank for a first down...