Word: struck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With brutal abandon, the front-running New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders fought point for point all afternoon. Then, with 65 seconds remaining, the Jets slipped ahead 32-29. But the Raiders struck back swiftly, connecting on a 22-yd. pass play that put them within scoring range. Now there were only 50 seconds left in the game. The Oakland stadium erupted like Mauna Loa. Twenty-one million at-home fans climbed into their TV sets. And then-NBC abruptly cut away to Heidi, a two-hour dramatization of the children's classic. It was a clear case...
...most are enthusiastic. "It's just like when I was a kid," said Robert Locke, a retired steamfitter from Long Beach, Calif. Said Mrs. Sigmund Schuster, wife of a Cleveland clothier: "For me, it only adds to the excitement of gambling." As she spoke, a nearby slot machine struck up a Sousa march, which is the way the casino's slots announce a jackpot...
...WERE at The Game on Saturday and then watched it on the tube on Sunday, you were probably struck by how paltry the teevee blips of spectators were compared to the actuality of people jumping up and down so wildly they fell down the Stadium steps. Or how the cameras missed the fans covering the entire field down to the twenty yard line before the last play. Or how they edited the tape so mechanically that watching it you almost forgot that you had discovered God's existence at the end of the real game...
...Yardlings had a 2-3 record entering the game, opposed to Yale's 0-6 record, but the Elis struck first with a touchdown late in the first period. Harvard blocked the conversion attempt and Yale never scored again...
...have shored against my ruin," the words "shored against" originally read "spelt into." This was probably Eliot's own emendation, but other alterations are clearly the work of the man who looked over the master's shoulder. "Dogaral" (doggerel), noted Ezra on one passage, and Eliot humbly struck the offending words from his text. But Eliot sometimes balked. Ezra had condemned Eliot's description of a nightingale's "inviolable voice" as "too purty" (pretty), but Eliot seems to have thought that no adjective could be too "purty" for a nightingale, and the word "inviolable" stands...