Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenged, and humiliated established figures of authority. In Washington D.C., he broke out of the "escape-proof" cell that once held Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield. In London, he freed himself from a pair of "pick-proof" darbies, the handcuffs used by Scotland Yard. And then, during a European tour, he freed himself from the thumbscrews, elbow irons and chains of the Kaiser's Polizei, and escaped from one of the "carrettes" the Russian Tsar used to transport his prisoners to Siberia. Such feats were always met by the surprise, and frequent embarrassment...
Actually, it was the referees that kept the score close at halftime, for after Brown had hit Wayne Moore at the Bruins' five-yard line with the clock registering single digits, the men in stripes forgot about the game and concentrated on winding their watches back an hour in accordance with Eastern Standard Time...
...first 13 minutes following intermission were also fruitful ones for the visitors, as they held Brown in check and took their first and only lead of the contest with a 58-yard, nine-play, three-minute drive that culminated in a 12-yard Brown to Larry Hobdy aerial in the same corner of the same endzone where Curry had caught the earlier score...
Before and after, though, it was more than all Brown. Before, there was a total Bruins' domination in the first quarter, a 76-yard beauty of a scoring pass from Mark Whipple to Charlie Watkins and, after Gary Bosnic had put the Crimson on the board with a 46-yard field goal early in the second period, a classic 81-yard Brown (remember, the team) drive that ended when Marty Moran dove three yards over left guard...
...marched up and down the field within the 20-yard lines quite effectively," said Quincy coach Gary Bravo, "but we just couldn't punch it over...