Word: interceptive
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...Royal Family without the aid of field glasses. The first was at the Duke of Northumberland's wedding in Westminster Abbey. The second was at the Tate Gallery (TIME, June 24), where I spent the better part of an hour and a half cutting around corners to intercept the royal entourage in their meanderings...
...Enabled a relatively small U.S. force to intercept a Jap invasion fleet, win a decisive victory in the Battle of the Coral Sea, thus saving Australia and New Zealand...
June Ally son, pregnant and playing bull-fiddle in a war-shot orchestra led by Jose Iturbi, hasn't heard from her husband in the South Pacific for months. The other girlish in the orchestra (that old backstage rut) intercept a telegram from the War department and fake a letter from the husband to the mother-to-be. It's all a bit irreverent...
...Okinawa, pilots of the 2nd Marine Air Wing took off to intercept a Japanese attacking force. Three of them-Major George C. Axtell Jr., of Baden, Pa., Major Jefferson Davis Dorrah, Hood River, Ore., and First Lieut. Jeremiah J. O'Keefe, Biloxi, Miss.-were flying into their first combat. When they landed again, all three were aces. Their joint score: 16 Japs shot down, two probables...
Within little more than a month, they drew their first blood. Sent to protect Horn Island, one of the Forty-niners' three squadrons, the Seventh, went up one day to intercept Jap raiders, downed five without loss to themselves...