Word: hit-and-run
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...team is the envy of many schools for its coach. Mr. Powers, a salon fencer of the French School who despises the hit-and-run methods of most competition fencers. With more time and practice perhaps the advantage of the bull fighter ever the bull will tell...
Allied forces in South Viet Nam like nothing better, so far as military tactics go, than to close with substantial numbers of Viet Cong. In hit-and-run guerrilla attacks, the Viet Cong are too often hard to get at; in larger units, they are usually no match for Allied forces. Last week, replenished and emboldened by the Tet truce, Communist ground forces came out to fight aggressively in unusual numbers. The results were predictable: when the smoke cleared, their thrusts had been blunted and they had lost more than 1,000 men, one of the highest tolls...
Three weeks ago, a pretty German became the first known hit-and-run skier to be arrested. Skiing down an Austrian Alp, she had crashed into another girl, jabbing a ski pole through her cheek, and then disentangled herself to schuss merrily on down without so much as a word. But because no law covers the situation precisely, it is uncertain just what will happen to the offender...
...hit-and-run single by Neville and a double over third base by Neil Houston were the big hits as Harvard scored solo tallies in the first and second innings...
...Deadly Accuracy. The Viet Cong, for their part, showed that they have not lost their sting. In their most successful attack of the war on an American installation, they launched a daring nighttime hit-and-run mortar barrage against crowded Tan Son Nhut airbase three miles north of Saigon, which serves both commercial and military traffic and is the world's busiest airport (1,512 landings and takeoffs a day). Firing with deadly accuracy, they lobbed 200 shells into the base in 20 minutes, ignited a 420,000-gallon fuel tank, smashed the enlisted men's transient billets...