Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Schwartzwalder does tend to mention unbalanced lines, eight-man blocking fronts and halfback option passes, most of his stories are about ball carriers, a sequence of unbelievable runners, all of them wearing No. 44. "Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little," he says with a snap in his voice, though his own number now is 78. "They never knew what they did. They just did it. Perfect instincts. Larry Csonka's instinct was to drop his shoulder and run over you. That worked too." Because Csonka started as a lineman, he never wore 44. Joe Morris was offered the number...
...never know how you will react to a scream until you hear one. I can tell you how you will react at first. You will freeze. Your head will snap like an alarmed bird's and your eyes will swell, long before any practical choices begin to form between hiding under the bed and leaping to the rescue. You will freeze because you will recognize the sound. It comes from you; all the panic and the pain; all the screams of one's life, uttered and quashed, there in that dreadful eruption that has scattered the air. All yours...
...Keller fumbled the snap, setting up Kelly Ryan's game-winning 40-yd. touchdown pass as time expired. Yowee...
...slipping away of the past, loved ones, youth; his customary tone is one of passion tempered by hard-earned irony. His poems rely heavily on visual impressions, as in this look at the scenery surrounding a state farm: "The horses, inflated casks/ of ribs trapped between shafts,/ snap at the rusted harrows/ with gnashing profiles." Such concrete images can survive the transition from Russian to English with much of their freshness intact. To write his poems, Brodsky still uses his native language, but he has acquired a formidable, sinuous command of English. He sometimes translates his own works...
Once again the bankers met, but this time they gave up all hope of rallying the whole market; they agreed only to help fill "air holes," stocks that could find no buyers at all. This time no Dick Whitney went marching out to snap up U.S. Steel. Instead, Whitney and the rest of the exchange's governing committee met secretly in a room directly under the exchange floor to decide whether the markets should be temporarily shut down...