Word: interceptive
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...time between left end and blocking back. Doctors have not definitely ruled him out of the Yale game, but he is hobbling around on crutches with a bad right knee as a result of the tumble he took in the third period after leaping high in the air to intercept a Brown pass...
...hundreds of gleaming, new machine tools, saw that Larry Bell had perhaps the finest aircraft plant in the U. S. They looked over a production line of some 30 Airacobras -all-metal, low-winged, single-engined pursuit planes designed to fly upwards of 400 m.p.h., climb phenomenally fast to intercept enemy bombers. And the visitors got a lesson in the status of U. S. defense...
...approach to the St. Lawrence from northern Europe is longer (2,750 mi.) and relatively easy for the U. S. fleet to intercept from Atlantic ports. The main danger of invasion of the St. Lawrence region rests on the possibility that an invader might gain naval dominance in the Atlantic...
...service of liberating us from England's domination, allowing us to be politically free to follow a purely French policy." France, he added, was determined, with the consent of Germany and Italy, to defend herself by sea and air against any further attacks. French warships were directed to intercept British merchant ships encountered on the high seas. Shore batteries were to attack any British ship approaching within twelve miles of the French coast. France was all but at war with Britain...
...week pieced together a story: Through the mine-strewn, net-hung waters of Helgoland Bight two divisions (three or four ships each) of British submarines made their way fortnight ago. Their highly risky mission was to sneak up and pot-shoot German warboats anchored at their bases, perhaps to intercept a squadron sallying out of harbor. One division belonged to the 640-ton Swordfish class. Two of its ships were the Seahorse and Starfish. The other division belonged to the 540-ton Unity class. One of its ships was the Undine...