Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faded back, and as the Harvard defenders fanned out to the left and right to cover the ends, Pratt moved through the line down the middle to the Crimson 15-yard mark, where he gathered in Bradley's pass and then raced the remaining 15 yards to the end zone...
...until this decisive cross-country sprint the teams had traded touchdowns evenly. In the second quarter, with Dartmouth leading 7-0, varsity reserve quarter-back Ron Johanson floated a 15-yard pass to Ken Hathaway, who had wriggled free of Dartmouth defenders in the end zone...
Play was more even in the second half, both sides coming very close to scoring. The Crimson saved a try when it forced an M.I.T. runner out of bounds in its end zone (the ball must be touched down to count), and were unluckly in turn when Charlie Eaton and then Jim Coper and Ash Hallett nearly dribbled the ball over the Engineer's line...
Inside the blockhouse an Air Force officer peered through a scope (roughly resembling a surveyor's transit), saw the wobbly bird, now three miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty...
Leading the turnaway were such longtime Eisenhower champions as the Montgomery Advertiser, which rebuked Ike for provoking a ''new pitch of sectional animosity," and the Nashville Banner, which damned him for turning the South into a "zone of occupation for a replay of Reconstruction." The Ike-minded Dallas News trumpeted that a Southern governor is now "a satrap-on-sufferance, removable or jailable on the order of a carpetbag judge." "CAESARISM," shrilled one of six anti-Eisenhower editorials in a single issue of the Charleston News and Courier...