Word: boomeranging
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...that he hit on the tenth hole. After hooking his drive on the 390-yard dogleg to the left. Smallnick could not even see the green for the trees. The smart Engineer then devised a plan which would propel his ball on a flight pattern like that of a boomerang. He would hook the ball around the trees...
...Boomerang Gamble...
...case, the North Vietnamese have come to rely increasingly on their sanctuaries in Cambodia as a staging area for troops near Saigon and in the Mekong Delta. The chance to forbid them that safe haven tempts Washington. Yet attractive tactical opportunities can boomerang, as has happened in Laos. Anti-Communist forces there swept the enemy from the Plain of Jars last year, only to see them come back stronger than ever...
Vermonters did not make up their minds easily. Before passage, the bill faced a mini-filibuster in the legislature while anguished outdoor admen argued that the billboard ban would boomerang on business. Governor Philip H. Hoff, a Democrat and a staunch supporter of the legislation, contended that, on the contrary, "by making our highways more attractive, we will improve business...
...policies, became a more serious problem as Johnson's own rapport with the Hill lessened. And like some other high officials, McNamara occasionally made euphoric prophecies about Viet Nam that, while politically appropriate at the moment, later turned into ammunition for Johnson's critics. The most unfortunate boomerang was tossed in the fall of 1963, when McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor predicted that most U.S. troops could be withdrawn from Viet...