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...field's narrow (10 yds.) "fair" lane, shouted at the disk's approach. Each wielded a hefty Schindel, a "tabletop" with a handle. As the Hornuss zoomed within range, the killers, one by one, sent their Schinden spinning up, sometimes as high as 40 ft., to intercept it. The last killer in line, stationed a full 300 yards from Striker Gruber, finally brought the disk down. Gruber's team got 20 points. If the Hornuss had fallen, unintercepted, in fair territory, heavy penalty points would have been scored against the killers. At halftime, killers and strikers swapped...
York area, began an audacious piece of improvisation. While the Wasp was still far at sea, he sent hull-repair experts racing out on a destroyer to intercept her; they surveyed the damaged bow and radioed their findings. In New York, Admiral Cowdrey ordered a matching bow section removed from the Wasp's sister ship, the Hornet-which was being modernized at Brooklyn-and floated to Bayonne, N.J. on a barge. The new bow was fitted into place after the battered Wasp was drydocked...
...atomic "strike force" ready to take off on retaliatory raids within a few hours after an attack on the U.S.; enough transports to service the strike force at overseas bases, and fighters to escort the bombers on their missions; at least 30 wings of all-weather jet fighters to intercept enemy bombers. Until these minimums are achieved, the Army & Navy should be cut to "token" appropriations...
...trick," he says. "When you see the back whom you're supposed to 'mark' getting near you, you make a feint to tackle him. That makes him pass to the back next him. Then, when the ball's left him, you run forward, and chances are you'll intercept the pass and break away safe with the ball...
...masterful touch of a talented cinematic showoff. In a familiar shot of tennis spectators pivoting their heads to & fro, he plants the conspicuously immobile head of the murderer, staring at the hero. He intercuts a Forest Hills tennis match, which Granger desperately tries to win in time to intercept the villain, with a scene over a sewer grating miles away, where the murderer is straining to recover a vital piece of evidence...