Word: boomeranger
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...more or less freely interpret those rules. This forces the student to experiment and see how much leeway he can take. He is told that he has "unlimited cuts, as long as his marks are kept up,"; but he usually finds that this concession acts as a boomerang, since his marks won't "keep up" if he starts cutting. The led who would cut the most times without lowering his mark must first know the written or understood course rules on the subject, and then find out how his section man feels about it. Admittedly, this is the wrong attitude...
Timothy Dwight's eleven rolled up a 13-0 victory over Adams to clinch the Harvard-Yale House championship on Friday afternoon. The Gold Coasters had banked heavily on their passing attack, and when Yale interceptions turned it into a boomerang, were forced to rely on their weaker running plays...
...biggest mess of the campaign and then stepped in it themselves. Charging the Democrats with running a campaign of innuendo, the Baltimore Sun declared: "This sort of thing cannot go much further before even the heavy thinkers responsible for it will begin to see that it is a boomerang...
...Hitler has no patent on fifth columns. Ever since Hitler took power, boomerang fifth columns have operated against the Nazis. Most famed, and reputedly the most effective, is the Black Front, an organization of ex-Nazis, ex-Communists, ex-Socialists. Its leader is Otto Strasser, who is widely regarded as the German most likely to destroy Adolf Hitler...
...White House lawn Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Henry Wallace and Attorney General Robert Jackson put on an exhibition of boomerang throwing for cameramen (see cut). Before News-photographer Byron Rollins, who was snapping them, could get out of the way, one of the boomerangs came back, knocked him down, cut a deep gash in his scalp...