Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With the Eli passing threat eliminated the Indians could concentrate on stopping the Yale ground attack. Dartmouth moved its backers-up closer to the line to check Bob Spears' off-guard bucks. At the same time, the Green ends split wide to prevent wide sweeps by Ed Senay. The figures demonstrate Dartmouth's success: Senay gained but 43 yards in 12 attempts; Spears picked up 44-yards in 13 tries...
...Indians' line was showed by the soggy ground, too, and the backs had trouble maneuvering in the mud. But the Dartmouth offense substitutes quick trap plays for razzle-dazzle, so the Indian ball-carriers were able to advance better than the Elis...
Alaska is a battleground for airmen, the Joint Chiefs decided; in 1947, it turned command of the theater over to the Air Force. The primary enemy thus became enemy airplanes, the primary defensive position, U.S. air bases. Let Russia or anyone else slip ground troops-airborne or seaborne-into such "islands of tundra" as Nome or Point Barrow, said the airmen, and you could isolate them like the mighty Japanese bases of Truk and Rabaul were isolated in the Pacific war. You would bomb the planes and shelters and leave them all shivering in the cold with no place...
Also published last week was a booklet on sex, marriage and the family, prepared by the Church of England Moral Welfare Council, which declared that sex "is the basic human fact and therefore the ground of all social life." If the church is to "save the world from its own despair," the council concluded, "she will have to take more seriously than she has so far done her duty to help men & women understand and accept, in the deepest sense, their sexuality, and to see in it a clue to their very nature...
...Crusaders drove for the score on the ground with the one exception of an 11-yard flat pass from Charles Maloy to Massucco. That pass was the only one which the heralded Maloy completed in 16 attempts Saturday, the result of Harvard's tight pass defense and the steady rain. Maloy climaxed the drive by scoring on a quarterback sncak. John Feltch missed the extra point...