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...Cross quite vulnerable to passes. The fact that the backers-up played close to the line, and indeed one of them would move in to form a seven-man line, meant that the defensive halfbacks would frequently reach a Dartmouth receiver just as he caught the ball on a button-hook pass. The defense was sucked completely out of position on Dartmouth's second touchdown; a 12-year-old could have caught Clayton's pass and scored, for there was not a Holy Cross defender within 29 yards...
Booby Trap. In Buffalo, John Sheer was arrested when he tried to drive away with a police car, pushed the siren button instead of the starter...
When all the knobs are set, the operator presses a button. The brain of the computer starts thinking electronically, weighing all the forces that will affect the flight of the missile. When the machinery stops, the whole story of the flight is drawn as a curve on a sheet of paper. If the rocket misbehaved (went out of control, veered sideways, missed the target), the reason for the error can be found and corrected on the next flight...
...Nación and La Prensa. They attack me all the time. I read them every morning myself." The visitor answered: "This man Visca you have here has brought lots of bad publicity to Argentina. They say he goes around closing newspapers." Whereupon Perón pressed a button, barked an order through an interoffice microphone: "Get rid of Visca...
...fight," Duff had said, "is between high-button-shoe reactionaries and the advocates of progressive government." Grundyism, trumpeted Duff, meant "government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public." Grundymen retorted bitterly that Duff was a "me-too" spendthrift, viewed with alarm the millions he had added to the state's budget for welfare services, pointed out that Harry Truman himself had facetiously invited him to become a Democrat...