Word: hit-and-run
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...each incarnations of a team philosophy. Ralph's routine run-saving catches in center were the backbone of his game just as defense was this team's constant; his team-leading 24 stolen bases came both from his own prodigious speed and Walsh's firm belief in the hit-and-run; his .390 average and unexpected pop at the plate (six HR and 36 RBI in 50 games) were Harvard's offense in a nutshell: you never knew where the big hits were going to come from...
...hit it off almost at once. Though Mao's guerrilla strategy was in strong disfavor with the Moscow-influenced "internationalists" at Communist Party headquarters in Shanghai, Deng, who had become exasperated with Soviet-style conventional warfare, was convinced that Mao's tactics were right. From 1931 to 1935, as the two worked to establish a Red Army base in the south-central province of Jiangxi, a mutual affection ripened that was almost brotherly. When Mao was denounced and demoted by pro-Russian elements of the party as an "escapist" for advocating a hit-and-run campaign of attrition, Deng...
...incident was the first hit-and-run fatality this year and the first in recent memory, Pasquarello said. "I can't recall the last one we've had," said the 18-year veteran of the department...
...wheel truck heading toward Somerville yesterday killed a woman on Somerville Ave. in a hit-and-run accident in the vicinity of the Porter Square Shopping Center, Cambridge police said...
...ambitious, but he does have a great subject. For it was Collins who, in the aftermath of the disastrous Easter Rising of 1916, which proved the hopelessness of open confrontation with Britain's occupying army, virtually invented urban guerrilla warfare, in effect writing the Ur-text on hit-and-run terrorism on Dublin's jostling streets. His work influenced generations of rebels everywhere. Then, having brought the British to their knees--and to the bargaining table--Collins in 1921 helped to negotiate the peace settlement that established the Irish Free State but failed to win full independence for his country...