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Over-rated publicity-wise, it was built upon the flash-and-feint theory and played better football in September than it did in November. That Harvard was in better condition can be shown by the comparative injury lists, and the way the Yale team tired in the Fourth quarter while the Crimson seemed to get stronger...
DDay: Overcast and grey. At 1600, Giap orders gunfire against the five remaining French strongpoints in the 12-by-4-mile valley. At 1630, black-garbed Communist infantry come at a run for the southern strongpoint. It is only a feint. Half an hour later 105-mm. fire hits the northeast and southeast strongpoints, and Communist infantry moves into trenches near the French barbed wire...
While the shock of his left feint is taking hold, Johnson suddenly sends his plot around right end. The capitalist turns out to have a heart after all (though it does not begin to beat until he sees a woman who reminds him of his wife attempt suicide with strychnine rather than face a Russian interrogation), and the Russians are vigorously presented as heels. Johnson's political gambit is fairly daring to have been executed in Hollywood, 1953; and it may serve, if the picture is a box-office success, to remind moviemakers that there is still...
...when he entered service and had never before been a marine, he was commissioned on the spot. Within a few short weeks in the spring of 1943, he was the key figure in a scheme which convinced the Germans that the attack on Sicily was to be only a feint, led them to weaken Sicily's defenses and so save any number of Allied lives. The odd part of it was that William Martin accomplished all this without lifting a finger. Major Martin, in fact, was dead when he was commissioned...
Wylie agrees, particularly where defensive play is concerned. "I've noticed you can always work one trick," he says. "When you see the back whom you're supposed to 'mark' getting near you, you make a feint to tackle him. That makes him pass to the back next him. Then, when the ball's left him, you run forward, and chances are you'll intercept the pass and break away safe with the ball...