Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jump to a height of 12 ft., has averaged 14 rebounds a game so far this year). And they compensate for their lack of height with a go-go game designed to rattle bigger, slower opponents. On defense, St. Joe's favorite tactic is the "zone press"-a full-court, blanket defense described by one opposition player as "like running into a windmill." The idea, says Ramsay, "is to stop the man who is advancing the ball on the dribble and cut off the passing outlets...
...miles from California to Viet Nam, with 18 more scheduled to go before Christmas. Many more gifts went by mail or private transportation. Michigan's Booth newspaper chain picked up the tab for airlifting the state's Christmas packages to Michigan boys in the war zone...
...Kong. In Saigon, dauntless Dwight flashed a letter from the Providence Journal promising to consider publishing any dispatches he might send home-and was accredited as a full-fledged war correspondent. His first taste of enemy fire came during a Skyraider napalm attack on a Viet Cong stronghold in Zone...
Adrenal Tides. Such time-zone crossings foul up man's daily physiological cycles, the "circadian rhythms"* that are still one of nature's deepest mysteries. No matter where he lives on earth, man becomes adjusted to daily cycles of activity and sleep that correspond roughly to the cycles of light and dark. But it is by no means a simple matter of day and night. Man seems to have both wakefulness and sleepiness centers, and the two interact-one switching off the other. Man also has temperature cycles; if he stays up late enough, he will feel chilly...
...then the Crimson's zone defense began to wilt, B.U.'s Steve Pugatch (who had 25 points for the night) drove in for a hook shot, Randy Robinson scored on a drive, and Larry Gluck swished a 25-foot bomb, John Scott sank two foul shots for Harvard, but B.U. came right back with two quick baskets. Harvard led, 73 to 71, with 13 seconds on the clock...