Word: chasings
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Keegan also studies Stonewall Jackson's brilliant use of local knowledge to lead the Union armies a frustrated chase up and down the Shenandoah Valley in 1862. There are chapters on the British disaster on Crete in 1941 ("Foreknowledge No Help"), on the Americans' immense triumph at Midway a year later (a world-historical victory that owed as much to luck, Keegan ingeniously argues, as to intelligence) and the struggle of British intelligence to locate and destroy Hitler's U-boat offensive against England...
Granted, the knock against Delgado is that he faded during the playoff chase, and most of his RBI came in the first half of the year...
...President in a horse-drawn carriage--would put a big, emotional exclamation point on the transatlantic bonds Blair has nourished. But now, a week before Air Force One is scheduled to touch down, Bush's journey is starting to look like a cross between The Perfect Storm and Chevy Chase Goes to London...
...their storytelling. The rebel fortress of Zion was a drab lair whose denizens engaged in way too much Jedi Council--style nattering. Then--as if producer Joel Silver had pleaded, "Could you please have somebody hit somebody?"--Reloaded 180'd into an action film, with the most elaborate car chase ever shot but without the first film's zip or resonance...
Yale had only just set up in the Harvard end when the puck was cleared from the zone. Packard gave chase, outpacing the Bulldog defense and steaming into the Yale end. Bulldog goaltender Josh Gartner skated far out of the crease, gathered the puck and attempted a quick clear. Packard came in hard and at an angle, blocking the clearing attempt with his chest. The puck dribbled off his jersey and squirted out to his left, and Packard gathered it while Gartner scrambled to get back into position...