Word: breakaway
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...wind made playing difficult as players skating down upwind would often be met with a snow flurry blown up from the ice. The rink was the smallest the varsity has played on this year and the Ephmer took good advantage of this in the first period by getting stveral breakaways. In previous games, the speedy Crimson defensemen have usually been able to catch up with these breakaway attempts, but the size of the rink made this increasingly difficult...
...varsity went to work. The third line also took up the pace and looked very sharp, particularly sophomore Les Duncan, who has vastly improved, and senior Dave Holmes. The final tallies came from the sticks of Fischer, at 12:03, and Bob Cleary, at 19:13 on a breakaway...
...have to get his team up for Harvard because they did it themselves, brings a team into the Stadium that is well suited for exploiting the Crimson's two glaring weaknesses. First, Brown is probably more effective in the air than on the ground, and second, it has the breakaway speed in Dick Beland and Jack McTigue to take advantage of the varsity's slowness...
Gero returned from Belgrade last week, to find Budapest astir with the example of Poland's successful breakaway. Within hours after Gero's return, the revolt broke out. Desperately searching for a soft face to smile at the workers, while themselves taking the most vigorous counter-revolutionary measures, the Russians found Imre Nagy. It was his fate to be put forward too late...
Their defiance of Moscow was the biggest internal shock the Communists have received since Tito's breakaway in 1948. In many respects what the Polish Communists did was a greater act of courage than Tito's, for Tito when he defied Stalin had control of his own country and of its armed forces. The Polish leaders did not. They had only the passion of an idea, and the knowledge that in this, at least, they might count on the backing of their people...