Word: striker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although Coach George Ford's primary pre-season question mark, concerning a strong starting goal tender, has been answered by Fred Herold, the scoring responsibilities have fallen solely on the foot of striker Dave Acorn, with little help from the rest of the offensive corps...
Radcliffe missed a golden scoring opportunity in the first half when crossed signals halted a two woman break-away, leaving striker Abbie Homans firing a divot of dirt on SMU goalie Lisa Druin...
...finally buckling under--for Father, who is broken on the rocks, though others have hopes that fight up and sprout through cracks. Characters dash off onto the ice floes of history--with the stirred-up sureness of manifest destiny or the desperation of an immigrant's flight, of a striker's decision to strike--and whether they come back or float away depends on their understanding of the terrain.J.P.Morgan understands it, or at least keeps himself so entombed in greatness that he can afford to. He is obsessed by the ancient Egyptians, by their religion and the idea that...
...claimed that they would lose $15,000 a month by striking, insisted that they were acting in the public interest. Others, acknowledging that people tend to protest mainly when they are being hurt in their wallets, admitted that their motives were more personal. Said one reluctant striker: "We're fighting for survival...
...history of this movement--as in Fighting for Our Lives,--a special place is reserved for the scabs, workers hired by the owners to break and to dismantle the strikers. Scabs are, of course, both villians and victims--they are tricked and used by the growers to take jobs away from other workers--but there is a special sense of betrayal when a scab like the six-foot, four-inch, 300-Ib Mike Falco assaults a 65-year-old striker...