Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Munro was then firing shots at his goalie in an effort to find out what Bagnoli could do. And, truth to tell, Bagnoli wasn't faring too well. He had trouble catching the ball with the cumbersome cast on his hand, and had developed a mental block about diving to his right. But although Munro had some serious doubts, he still could not discount Bagnoli. "He can do anything he wants to do," Munro said...
...halftime, the varsity caught fire in the second half and nearly pulled the game out. Two plays after the kickoff, fullback Sam Halaby turned in the longest run from scrimmage in the long history of Harvard Stadium--an 84-yard dash, aided by a picture block by Larry Repsher. Quarterback Charlie Ravenel guided another touchdown drive, and the Crimson was within one point, 23 to 22. But Harvard could not score again...
...Southern California (6-0)-rolled for 21 first downs v. California's 8, but needed a key block by Guard Mike McKeever (TIME...
...warders with a view into the cells. It was never executed, but audiences have enjoyed panopticonic vision for years. Countless films and TV plays have made the state pen almost as familiar a setting as Tombstone-the hostages with shivs at their throats, the leader in the besieged cell block on the phone to the warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand (who teaches creative writing at Stanford) has produced a tale of a prison riot that is at once a violent melodrama...
...squarely on the proposition that in prison life all sexuality, unless otherwise perverted, is homosexual. Also, as in any authoritarian society, there is an underground. At S.S.P.C. its leader is Roy Kinney, the "Inmate King," a man of considerable natural ability, convict boss of the hard cases in detention block...