Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Window. When the mobs syndicated, after Prohibition, Al became "The Law"-his Brooklyn mob handled executions for the chieftains of the underworld. Some victims went into the Hudson in concrete kimonos. Some were buried in quicklime in a Lyndhurst, NJ. chicken yard that the boys used as a private cemetery. In all, Al was credited with 63 corpses during this phase of his career. He never paid a day in jail for them. Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles sang about Murder Inc., in 1940, but Reles, though locked in a Coney Island hotel room and guarded by cops, somehow managed...
...running of Boulris and the passing and play calling of Johanson were the entire offense for Harvard. Boulris picked up 150 yards of the Crimson's 173 yard total in 22 plays, for an average of nearly seven yards of carry, and Johanson completed 9 out of 17 passes for a total of 84 yards...
...minutes earlier, the Crimson barely missed scoring when Bill Crowley, replacing Stahura at right halfback, misjudged a Johanson pass on the Quaker ten yard line...
Another Penn fumble, recovered by tackle Pete Briggs midway through the second quarter, halted a Penn drive before it could get started. A few minutes later, the Crimson found itself on Penn's 11 yard line. But Boulris, attempting to pass, lost 14 yards and Penn regained control...
...Harvard forward unit held, and Penn had to kick. Then, with the ball on the Crimson 20, Boulris tried his favorite right end spot, wriggled free from several defenders, and raced 55 yards to the Penn 25. Four plays later Johanson found captain Tom Hooper alone in the end zone, Hooper making a very nice catch of a rather inaccurate 20 yard toss...