Word: breakaway
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...maneuvering room, they can break a game wide open by slithering, pirouetting, stutter-stepping and sprinting through a field of tacklers for the touchdowns that are the most exciting plays in football. Some top teams-notably the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers-have no such stars. The breakaway back is a specialist in the science of deception, and for the pros, he is in desperately short supply...
...Breakaway backs are those who average more than 3.5 yards per carry...
...Boer-dominated Nationalist government took over in 1948, its unwavering goal has been a republic for South Africa, shorn of the ties to Britain's monarch that recalled the ugly days of the Boer War. Most of the English-speaking whites opposed the idea of a total breakaway from Britain, fearing not only the economic stagnation that might result from loss of Commonwealth trade ties, but also the free hand this would give to Nationalist Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's white-supremacist apartheid policy...
...breakaway runner like Bobby Mitchell of the Browns or Hugh McElhenny of the San Francisco Forty Niners really gives me fits. You've got to beat their blockers, and then you've got to watch out for their fakes. Mitchell has literally faked me off my feet. It's too risky to tackle them low. I hit them high and wrestle them down. It's not the way you're taught in college, and it's not pretty-but it's effective...
...Cool World, an adaptation of Warren Miller's novel (TIME, June 15), has a cast of young Negroes re-creating adolescent gang 'life in Harlem. After watching a gremlin-bugged Philadelphia opening (sandwiches flew from plates, breakaway bottles seemed made of high-grade steel, actors slipped and slid on the turntable set), Inquirer Critic Henry Murdock called it a "disturbing play, so close to commentary on a current scene that one wishes it might also have been a more effective play...