Word: hit-and-run
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...sixth of them Negroes), when a pack of carousing teen-agers in the slum Fourth Ward began pelting passing police cars with bottles and rocks. Soon hundreds of Negroes were racing through the streets, smashing windows and hurling debris at police. Almost simultaneously, 20 miles south of Paterson, hit-and-run bombers in Elizabeth, a city of 110,000 people (with 20,000 Negroes), pitched Molotov cocktails into three taverns. Before long, hundreds of Negroes were flinging bottles and bricks from rooftops and street corners...
...analogy with Malaya is very, very close. There were British combat troops by the thousands in the jungle, and they stayed there. Choppers were used to supply them, and they did not come out. And that is how they beat the guerrillas. There was none of this hit-and-run business. The initiative was British, not guerrilla. In South Viet Nam, it is the diametric opposite. There is no South Vietnamese and no American initiative at all. We command and control nothing...
Harvard batsmen presented Luther with a cozy margin in the first inning. Reliable Skip Falcone led off against inexperienced Husky pitched Steve Grolnic and beat out an infield hit. George Neville, the club's leading hitter, followed with a perfect hit-and-run shot between first and second which advanced Falcone to third base...
...Will Wedge wrote much closer to the game than writers do now. They told the fans what was happening and why. They were full of the inside stuff. Now the young writers try to be sophisticated, blase. 'Hell,' they say, 'everybody knows what the hit-and-run...
Collision. For Drebinger, who not only knows what the hit-and-run is but feels a need to explain it, the seasons are now officially over. He was on the job down in Florida watching his Yankees warm up for opening day when the word arrived. "The Times put in a mandatory retirement age of 75 a couple of years ago, with the idea of reducing it one year each year," he said. "Now it's 73, and that's what I am. We just happened to collide-the limit on the way down...