Word: decoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King held Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid both at fault in the Battle for Leyte Gulf-Halsey for letting himself be drawn off base by a Japanese decoy force, Kinkaid for not making dawn air searches...
...Eddie Molloy, despite a soaking wet ball, completed 11 out of 18 tosses. Ed Woodsum, six foot two inch end, while not outstandingly ast, is an incredibly clever who didn't drop a pass all afternoon. By the end of the first period Molloy was using Woodsum as a decoy and passing to halfback Frank Smith, who also onto the ball with amazing determination...
...Exit the Decoys. In the meanwhile, Hero Hardcaster has been losing favor with the Red-and-pink salon crowd. When he tells one over-amorous admirer that the atrocity tales were so much party propwash and that he himself was only a stupid bungler in Spain, the lady denounces him to the other pinkos as a low cynic. Hardcaster is only too glad to leave the froth front and take charge of the gunrunning scheme. How the Reds double-cross Hardcaster and decoy the innocent Stamps to their deaths in Spain makes for a mystery-thriller finish to Author Lewis...
Chinese lurking in the shadows tried to decoy U.S. litter-bearers by calling, "Medic, medic!" but their accents were unconvincing. One medic, Pfc. Carl Francis of Versailles, Ohio, fired his carbine until he was out of ammo, then ran. Three Chinese ran after him, and one threw a grenade. It exploded close behind him, hurling him unconscious into the mud. Despite the lurking Chinese, whom they could hear chirping like crickets, another medic and a lieutenant crawled out and rescued Francis. He had four grenade fragments in his back...
Holmes chuckled. He recalled right off that Cooper gave Roe the decoy by snubbing the first pitch three straight trips to the plate. The last time up with the Braves trailing by a run, he swung with all his power and sent one high and far towards the left score-board. The only trouble was that a howling wind turned the blast into an out. Boston Globe, April...