Word: intercept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defense System. In 1968 the U.S. was building a widespread anti-missile defense system intended to intercept and destroy Soviet ICBMS before they struck American cities. A study of the guidance system and flight characteristics of the Soviet warhead would have enabled U.S. scientists to program more effectively the computers directing the U.S.'s targeting radar...
...which scatter warheads toward several different targets after the rocket re-enters the atmosphere. The more deadly MARVs (for maneuvering reentry vehicles) have several separate nuclear payloads that can be maneuvered in different directions and at varying speeds as they plunge toward earth -making them even more difficult to intercept. The U.S. has already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat of Soviet MIR vs now being deployed, the Pentagon has ordered major "rewiring" of both the pyramid-shaped nerve center of the Safeguard anti-missile system in North...
...passing game to the point where it is non-existent. The Terriers' defense was shoddy throughout the contest even with the return of Peter Brown, as the B.U. defensemen had difficulty getting the puck out of their zone, making many sloppy passes that Eagle forwards swooped in to intercept...
...Radcliffe cagers worked their press successfully from the beginning. They forced their opponents into making long, soft passes that Captain Jeannie Guyton could intercept, and for a while the Wheaton team failed to move the ball near its own basket...
...most important is the factor of the individual Harvard player himself. He is no longer the well-conditioned machine that only tried to get to position hoping to intercept a pass or crowd a situation. They are by now individual players who know exactly how they fit into the team--possessing skills promised at the beginning of the season by Ford...