Word: intercepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper saying, "Raise hell and sell papers," the papers were sensational, slapdash crusaders. Even before the U.S. got into World War I, Rathom was convinced that German diplomats were spies. He liked to brag that he planted secretaries in the offices of high German diplomats to intercept secret correspondence, and used Secret Service men as reporters. Over and over, other dailies around the U.S. carried Page One stories of German intrigue that began, "Tomorrow the Providence Journal will say ..." But Rathom's enterprise got him in trouble with Assistant Navy Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the papers...
...development of radar-controlled guns. When the radar is locked to a target, an electronic computer figures out the target's distance, speed, direction and course. It knows all the answers and can swing the gun so that any shell fired from it will intercept the course of the target in midair. The actual firing can be done either automatically-at the rate of 45 rounds a minute-or by one of the crew. The shells have proximity fuses that explode them as soon as they feel hardware ahead...
Harvard-and-Oxford-trained, lanky Diplomat Cabot is a member of the famous Boston family. His most publicized diplomatic success occurred in 1930 when, as third secretary in the Dominican Republic, he raced into the hinterland in his Oakland runabout to intercept an advancing revolutionary army and win its leaders to a plan for averting bloody warfare in the island. Rising rapidly thereafter from one Latin American post to another, he acted as chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires in 1946, before moving on to such international hotspots as Belgrade, Shanghai and Helsinki...
Somehow, Washington kept patience and hope. His capacity for self-control was enormous: when the news of Benedict Arnold's treason reached him, he sent his aide, Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 24, riding off to intercept the traitor, calmly ate dinner, did his best to comfort Arnold's hysterical wife, and within three hours revamped the defenses of Arnold's exposed post-the Hudson narrows at West Point -so that the British could not storm it. When mutinies broke out among Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops in 1781, Washington suppressed them sternly, not because he was harsh...
...field's narrow (10 yds.) "fair" lane, shouted at the disk's approach. Each wielded a hefty Schindel, a "tabletop" with a handle. As the Hornuss zoomed within range, the killers, one by one, sent their Schinden spinning up, sometimes as high as 40 ft., to intercept it. The last killer in line, stationed a full 300 yards from Striker Gruber, finally brought the disk down. Gruber's team got 20 points. If the Hornuss had fallen, unintercepted, in fair territory, heavy penalty points would have been scored against the killers. At halftime, killers and strikers swapped...