Word: decoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Carolina's Tatum, working behind the safety of a first-period touchdown, sent his ends deep, while his backs held onto the ball as if they never meant to pass. When Miami's defenders finally decided that those ends were merely a decoy, they moved up close to the line, and the Tarheel trap sprang shut. A pair of running passes set up North Carolina's second touchdown, and the Tarheels were out front for keeps...
...Animated Decoy. A battery-powered plastic duck that simulates feeding movements of a mallard is being marketed by Riley Decoy Corp., Eugene, Ore. Later this year the firm will also offer hunters an animated mallard hen. Price: $17.95, with battery...
...Grenonillage (roughly, leapfrogging), to kill off the rebel bands. Decoy patrols are sent out into the hills to act as moving targets, inviting attack. Supporting them are teams of helicopters scattered in impromptu bases. When an attack comes, the patrol radios to the base. In a typical grenouillage operation last week, a call came in to Lieut. Colonel Marcel Bigeard, established in a burned-out farmhouse south of Bone. Within minutes, Bigeard had seven helicopters loaded up; he took off, returned with 15 captured rebels, three mortars and 60 rifles...
After many similar experiments, Hall decided that the squid's standard operating procedure is to turn as dark-colored as possible just before a pursuing enemy catches up with it. Then it ejects as a decoy a blob of inky water about as big as itself. Simultaneously, it turns light-colored and takes evasive action, pretending to be something else. This system fooled Hall, and he believes that it ought to fool the squid's natural enemies...
...Decoy. Wearing the women's uniforms, Steiner and his men surprise four Russian front-line bunker crews, tommy-gun all of their sleepy-eyed occupants, except for one whom they use as a decoy in crossing over to their unbelieving buddies. Steiner is made a sergeant on the spot and gets a furlough, but all he and his men have really won is a brief reprieve, not a full pardon from death. The whole crumbling German front is itself a rearguard desperately parrying Russian advances and encirclements...