Word: hit-and-run
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...south, the F.L.N. was negotiating with the left-leaning government of newly independent Mali to give them a base for hit-and-run raids against French communication lines in the Sahara...
Murtaugh lets his starting pitchers try to work themselves out of trouble instead of jerking them at the first long hit, loyally sticks to the same, starting lineup. Says Pirates' General Manager Joe L. Brown, son of the chasm-mouthed comedian: "Dan never pushes the panic button." With little raw power in his lineup, Murtaugh has revived an oldfashioned, single-slapping brand of baseball, leniently lets his players flash the sign for the hit-and-run whenever they see a chance. "Murtaugh lets us use our own judgment," says Hoak, "until it proves to be bad judgment. For instance...
...nervous Nazi garrison at St. Nazaire got its answer soon enough. In the wake of the hit-and-run bombers that ominous night in March 1942, a motley armada ghosted in across the broad tidal flats of the Loire estuary. Thin-skinned motor launches flicked their white wakes into the glare of hastily lowered searchlights. Ack-ack gunners frantically cranked their weapons toward zero elevation. Shells screamed across the river, and the water ran with fire as fuel tanks were hit...
Caviar & Cliaos. But U.S. policymakers saw little profit in trying to make a free-world bastion out of an isolated jungle nation whose government had so little popular support. The chaos left after Communist hit-and-run attacks amply bore out a U.N. report's blunt findings that massive aid to Laos ($225 million from the U.S. since 1955) " not so far achieved significant results." The Laotian army, on which 70% of the U.S. aid was spent, has shown itself an unimpressive fighting force; most of the rest of the U.S. money, instead of being used to finance rural...
...HIT AND RUN, by John Creasey (190 pp.; Scribner; $2.95), involves the Scotland Yard operative with the least probable nickname-Inspector "Handsome" West-in the most deplorable of crimes: a hit-and-run driver has aggravated the servant problem by squashing a nice old nanny at a zebra crossing. But Nanny-as proper application of the least-likely-suspect-but-one rule should make clear at the beginning-has stickied her hands with something more than spilled oatmeal. The evildoers sin vigorously, and Handsome West ratiocinates like a computing machine, but despite their efforts, the book seems only a notch...