Word: leapfrogging
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...audacious American fighter-[Lieut. Edward] O'Hare, I learned later-dart recklessly into a torrential hail of flak . . . clip off a straggler, and then in leapfrog fashion shoot down at least two others. It couldn't have taken more than a minute or two. That was the last straw for the Japs...
...Giant Leapfrog. Until Turkey might be persuaded either to do something or to do nothing, the Axis plan was apparently to play a giant game of leapfrog, transporting men, small artillery, light tanks, food and maintenance supplies by plane from Greece to Iraq. In Iraq they would, for the time being, fight a kind of vanguard delaying action, keeping the British from getting firmly established in the area until they themselves could...
...grade of colonel will be determined on a basis of selection. The system may eventually lead to the extension of the policy of selection for temporary promotion to all grades and in all components during the present emergency." No longer could synthetic fire-breathers of the Organized Reserves leapfrog lightly over their Regular brethren...
Last week the explanation was out. One of the Yalta scientists found a man chopping wood in the hall of the station. Other "quakes" had been caused by people moving furniture, children playing leapfrog, adults fighting. Unknown to Yalta's unobservant seismologists these people had been moved into the seismology station by the Yalta housing committee. The committee, cabled the New York Times's Harold Denny, thought seismology a worthless science anyway since the toppling of buildings was sufficient indication that an earthquake was happening...
...scientific phenomena and build a base for a transarctic airline (TIME, May 31). Weather reports were reaching Moscow four times daily and at week's end hirsute Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt's staff had noted three facts of scientific interest: their radios worked most peculiarly, playing magnetic leapfrog over numerous electrical blind spots; the water was 2½ miles deep below them; their floe was drifting away from the Pole five miles each day, had already moved some 60 miles. Exciting event: someone spotted a guillemot, black-&-white seabird heretofore unknown so far north. Finally, with the base...