Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second-string right inside Bill Schaefer lobbed a 30-yard pass over the Princeton fullbacks to the Crimson center forward. Goalie Rowland Halstead came charging out of the nets as Saltonstall flicked the ball inside the right post from 12 yards...
Either team could have won the game if they had a man capable of kicking extra points, but lack of a place-kicker hurt the Crimson more than the home team. In the fourth quarter, Harvard was on the Princeton 12-yard line with fourth and 8. John Ballantyne's pass to Neil Hurley was incomplete, and Harvard lost the ball on downs -- in what would ordinarily be close field-goal range...
Last week all of Britain wondered where Blake was: Scotland Yard staked out the abandoned R.A.F. airstrips around London, put a watch on the docks, kept a discreet eye on the Russian and East European embassies. Seven other spies were transferred to less porous prisons, and the Home Office appointed Lord Mountbatten to investigate the scandalous state of security in British jails, which have been losing inmates at the rate of ten a week. A more fascinating question concerned neither Blake's whereabouts nor his means of escape. Rather, it was a question of identity: Who and what...
...sunny days when quick winds tumble through the Yard the prettiest girls use the place as an open-air run-way and half-skip, half-slide down the steps, patterns of light and shadow changing on moving legs. Often several girls sit to one side, running fingers languorously over the cut-stones and listening to the bells of Mem Church roll in unhealthy sound...
...guide the students as they put a show together. And there is some disagreement around the Loeb as to how successful he is. Certainly his is not the style of the ubiquitous Dan Seltzer, distributing encouragement at rehearsals, helping actors make up on opening night, stopping in the Yard or the halls of the Loeb for a quick chat and to give a pat on the back. Nor is he like the warm, rather paternal Hamlin. Both the associates seem to be around more than Chapman, who sticks to his office. "Dan Seltzer and I don't agree," he says...