Word: catapulting
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Penn and Harvard square off in the opener, which could catapult the Crimson into good position in a tight Ivy League race. Harvard, currently fifth in the Ivies with a 1-3 record, can hope for a second or third place finish if it gets by Penn and Yale...
...built for about $250,000 because the plane would not require such expensive features as ejection seats and life-support systems, which are necessary to ensure the pilot's safety. Even landing gear might be eliminated; there are concepts in which RPVs could be launched by mobile catapult or from the wings of larger mother aircraft-and then be hooked in the air by the mother ship and retrieved as they descend under parachutes...
WHEN Correspondent Don Neff arrived in Viet Nam for the first time eight years ago, a favorite topic of conversation was the primitive state of Communist equipment. "There was even a story going around," he recalls, "that the V.C. had a new antiaircraft weapon: a catapult that shot ten-foot arrows." Back for his fourth tour of duty last week, Neff loitered over besieged An Loc in a light U.S. reconnaissance plane knowing that the Communists now have sophisticated Soviet antiaircraft guns as well as modern tanks...
...Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who had counted on his longtime popularity in neighboring Wisconsin to catapult him into the Democratic lead, came in third, with 21%. It was a serious, though by no means fatal blow for Humphrey, who has yet to win a presidential primary...
Although often strikingly different, the children's designs fell into several definable patterns (see cuts). Many instinctively thought of using robots. Others favored obstacle courses and recreational parks with equipment that would both intrigue and energize a dog. One child's park had a catapult that hurled magnetized dog biscuits, which dogs chased as the biscuits automatically flew back. Several children proposed motorized treadmills, one of which was patrolled by four armed guards to keep the poor pooch from running off it. Another treadmill design featured a screen on which a movie of a rabbit was projected while...