Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Musick feels his team is vulnerable to the pass and he is concerned that Massey will exploit this weakness with passes, mainly to Rich Maher and Lew Roney...
Smith can open the attack with deep passing to Bruce Freeman or sophomore Denis Sullivan, or if he can hit Varney with effective turn-in passes, he should be able to exploit Cornell's short-coverage problems...
...Every invention in the course of history," Darlington says, "from the first right down to the present-day computer, has required a mental effort to exploit it. It has therefore exerted a selective pressure against the less intelligent. This pressure has been responsible for the evolutionary improvement of the human species throughout time." Indeed, evolutionary chance rather than human design accounts, in Darlington's view, for the entire spectrum of human intellectual progress. One example he gives is the celibacy of Roman Catholicism, a medieval practice. By preventing the inbreeding that this ruling class might otherwise have practiced...
...folk customs as he has with tribal chieftains ("Uncle Tomahawks," he calls them) who will do anything to butter up the whites. What he clearly hopes for is a sensible use of both worlds. Indians should keep their reservations as a source of renewal and spiritual strength but exploit opportunities offered by the white world, both in jobs and education, to make themselves and their dependents selfsupporting...
...Nixon Administration. On Vietnam or ABM or tax policy, he found himself weakly deferring to whatever Nixon was saying at the moment. He failed to develop a coherent counterattack, even with a crude theme like "law-and-order." His attempt to avoid debate gave Harrington one more issue to exploit...