Word: hit-run
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Dave Waters led off the Cornell first with a single and advanced to third on a picture hit-run play with Chico "I'm not obnoxious, just spirited" Bengochea. Both scored when Gary Kaczor and Marlin McPhail followed with singles...
Died. Winthrop L. Biddle, 74, penniless scion of the fabulous, prosperous, numerous Philadelphia Biddles; in an auto accident; in Haddon Township, N.J. Rejecting the family fortune, Biddle chose a drifter's life. He was killed by a hit-run driver while pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings down a country road...
...think will serve us well in Viet Nam," says Vice Admiral Thomas Connolly. "In a conventional war, there are always targets, like gun emplacements on a hillside, that can't be hit by radar. The only way to hit them is by eyeballing them first." Since most of the Navy's and Air Force's operational jets were designed primarily for quick hit-run attacks in a nuclear war, they have neither the fuel capacity to loiter long over targets nor the armor plating to withstand ground fire...
...best when he was informal. He wrote letters to the editor of the Oxford (Miss.) Eagle on such matters as a campaign to legalize the sale of beer ("Yours for a freer Oxford, where publicans can be law-abiding publicans six days a week"), he reported that a hit-run driver had killed his bird dog ("His name was Pete. He was just a dog, a 15-month-old pointer"), and he took an ad to thank the mayor for removing a sign that had been posted near his gate. In a tartly humorous public notice in the Weekly Eagle...
Unwittingly Unlawful. Arrest is almost always lawful when police produce a judge-signed warrant specifying the charges, which the person arrested is entitled to read. Local police, however, rarely have the opportunity to use arrest warrants. Unlike federal agents, they confront hit-run crimes that leave little time for investigation to nail down probable cause. Typically, local police arrest first, then question suspects to build cases...