Word: interceptive
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That set the style of play for the first two periods. Brown would intercept a Harvard clearing pass and go in to score. Harvard would retaliate with a goal of its own, but Brown always managed to keep two goals in front...
...thing Harvard linebacker Dale Neal really wants to do is intercept a pass. "It's a great satisfaction to not only stop a drive, but to actually take the ball away from the opposition and help your own team score," Neal says eagerly...
Blackout. Following the shot unerringly for more than a hundred miles, a remarkable Air Force camera called IGOR (for Intercept Ground Optical Recorder) brought the shutdown and separation of the first stage, and the ignition of the second stage into full view of the TV audience. Seconds later viewers also saw the dramatic jettisoning of the Apollo escape tower, which arced high above the spacecraft before plummeting back toward earth. Finally, about 10½ min. after launch, out of IGOR's range, Apollo 7, still attached to the second-stage Saturn 4B rocket, glided into an orbit 140 miles...
...first of the Cowles' all-stars was W. Palmer Dixon '25. Cowles didn't have a set of magic rules. He picked out a player's strongest point and worked on it. He taught Dixon, who had an uncanny ability to sense shots, a strong position game. Able to intercept and return anything thrown at him. Dixon was nearly unbeatable. He took the National Singles title...
...interpreter, he explained that the three mutineers were now his prisoners. Powerless to stop him, the Coast Guard had no choice but to let him go. Two days later, it even had to intervene to prevent the Julio from being hijacked by an armed yacht dispatched secretly to intercept it by a Cuban exile organization in Miami. The U.S., of course, got no thanks from Havana. Raging against "this new imperialistic Yankee aggression," the Castro government charged that "Yankee warships" had "violated the principles of freedom of the seas" by carrying out a "warlike maneuver" against a helpless freighter...