Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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October 10, 1979. Schoellkoft Field in Ithaca, N.Y. With 1:12 remaining in the fourth quarter, Cornell leads, 34-11. Third-string quarterback Chris Metz goes back to pass, and fires a 79-yd. touchdown bomb to Jim Burry. Final score: Cornell 41, Harvard...
Toward the end, though, things became a bit nerve-racking as the Army offense under second-string quarterback T.D. Decker put together a pair of late drives. As they did in last week's one-point cliffhanger with Holy Cross, the gridders clamped down and staved off the final campaign to preserve the triumph...
...Crimson outshot Smith, 28-15, freshman goaltender Ann Diamond continued her scoreless string in her first half of play, and the offense set up numberous scoring opportunities, only to be stymied by some tough Smith goaltending...
...pity, because everything else in the program demonstrates lapidary craftsmanship. Producer Jonathan Powell, Adapter Arthur Hopcraft and Director John Irvin are like glypticians bent on chiseling one perfect series for TV. Hopcraft has retained Le Carré's spare style, which is as tightly drawn as a violin string. It can convey almost as many tones, and it is wonderful to hear what talented performers can do with those laconic, loaded sentences...
...puts reality up for grabs, and the grabs are his, since he is an interpreter. If he is the only one who knows what reality is, then he must also be the only one who knows what it ought to be. In short, he has the world on a string-every politician's dream...