Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The game's basic attraction is that any number may play, under any rules at all, and without much risk of getting seriously hurt. In Central Park, touch "gridirons" are often marked off with nothing more than coats discarded by the likes of New York Post Columnist Leon ard...
One Missouri. Fast and furious, touch football relies on the forward pass, the timely lateral, and the guileful maneuver To protect glue-footed passers, some teams allow only one defensive player to cross the line of scrimmage, or else require the entire defense to count for five seconds ("one Missouri...
Since touch players usually wear nothing more than bluejeans, a T shirt and sneakers, the blocking is often restricted to the line of scrimmage, and in most games no one is allowed to risk destruction by rushing the kicker. When blocking is allowed downfield. the touch variety of football can...
Deceptive Innocence. Nowhere in the nation is touch football growing faster than in Los Angeles, where the sport is played by some 100,000 members of organized teams, and estimates are that another 400,000 players turn out for pickup games. Such elusive backs as Washington State's Keith...
For years hundreds of chemists have been trying to solve one of organic chemistry's toughest problems: artificial synthesization of a compound with all the biological (and hence medical) properties of ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone). Last week the University of Pittsburgh announced that a research team headed by Dr. Klaus...