Word: interceptive
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...invitation to Dorticós so long that it was too late for him to accept. Peru shifted Dorticós' arrival to a distant military airfield and barred welcomers. Chile refused to admit him. Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt sent his Foreign Minister to intercept the Cuban President in Buenos Aires and persuade him to stay away because his trip "was not convenient." Dorticós rejoined that he would visit Caracas unless Betancourt publicly barred him. Betancourt then cut Dorticós' scheduled visit from five days...
...Crimson left halfback started the Penn downfall today midway through the first period when he leaped high on the Harvard 40-yard line to intercept a Larry Purdy pass out of the hands of Penn's speedy halfback, Dave Coffin. Boulris got away from Coffin and returned the interception back to the Penn 42. The Crimson attack, which had been sluggish thus far, could move the ball only seven yards on the tries, but with fourth down and three yards to go on the Penn 35, Boulris smashed over right guard, tore loose from several linebackers, and outdistanced the deep...
Cessna 163, fly 019° magnetic. We are going to try to intercept you in your course line that you are now flying. Keep...
...Vineyard coast, Oscar was carefully working all the likely rocks that he had spotted in half a century of stalking the striper. The big ones were running in their annual fall migration from Maine back to the Chesapeake Bay spawning grounds they had left last spring. Determined to intercept them, Oscar and fellow zealots were getting up in the middle of the night and tramping 100 miles of Vineyard beaches in the island's 14th annual Striped Bass Derby, which has drawn 1,200 fishermen from as far as California and Nova Scotia...
...Soviets from their traditional northwestern Pacific fishing waters, Japanese boats are ranging far into the mid-Pacific to intercept the salmon as they head for Alaska spawning grounds, trap tens of millions before they can reproduce. Up to 20% of Bristol Bay red salmon runs in 1957 bore the telltale scars of long, fine-meshed Japanese gill nets, which can be strung to form a solid, ten-mile barrier across the ocean. By using these nets, say U.S. fishermen, the Japanese kill many immature, Alaska-born salmon and violate the intent of a 1953 treaty designed to prevent the Japanese...