Word: interceptive
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...your hackles up, California. We are here to discuss that choke-thy- neighbor word, water. Here being a quintessentially innocuous looking and provocative setting, the Los Angeles water intercept on Lee Vining Creek in the eastern Sierras. On a brilliant winter afternoon, knee-deep snow covers the intake pond behind a small concrete dam, and a Steller's jay swoops among the evergreens. Mount Dana, lacking only an Ansel Adams moon, is lit up crisply against a cloudless sky. And in the background (the sticking point), there is the sound of rushing water...
With the help of sophisticated surveillance equipment, The Crimson was able to intercept a three-way conference call from Washington on Sunday, February...
...radar-intercept officer (RIO), seated behind the lead Tomcat pilot, armed his plane's short-range Sidewinder missiles and its longer-range Sparrow rockets. Outmanned and outgunned in their less maneuverable Floggers, the lone Libyan pilots had to fly their planes, watch their radars and handle their weapons without airborne help...
...destroying a nearby village in the process. But as I drifted toward Libya in my parachute, I knew my next move. All I had to do was tap a few keys, go back to the program's main menu and choose another mission. This time I think I'll intercept that Soviet Tu-95D Bear reconnaissance plane heading for East Germany and blast...
With 13 seconds remaining and MIT on a power play, Marshall helped send the game into overtime when he skied out of the pool to intercept a pass intended for a wide-open Engineer in front of the Harvard goal...