Word: lob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson went into high gear with Hill converting off a lob pass from Carey. Next, Carey, who led all players with four steals, hawked the ball and drove the length of the court for a score. He capped his whirlwind first half performance with a pair of foul shots to give the Crimson a seven point cushion...
Halberstam, 41, estimates he will tap 600 people before he is done. Aggressive and sometimes abrasive, he uses a technique he calls "bracketing, like they do in the artillery. You lob a shell over here, then one closer to the other side. Then you narrow in." The final product, which he works on between treks on the college lecture circuit, will also include an examination of radio, the computer industry, newspapers and magazines. Halberstam's conclusion: along with TV, they control information, and "information is power...
...mercenaries captured the tactically critical towns of Benguela and Lobito. Though the mechanized troops are still 400 miles from Luanda, there were few obstacles left between them and the capital. North of Luanda, meanwhile, F.N.L.A. forces were within 18 miles of the city and scarcely a mortar's lob from the capital's sole source of water. They claimed that they would wait only until the last of the Portuguese were gone before assaulting the city. The M.P.L.A. was ready. "We will succeed in the long run," said one commander, "thanks to Comrade...
...adjoins the parade route, and a pitched battle was soon under way, leaving 175 wounded. This year, on the same occasion and on the very same streetcorners, British soldiers were back in action. They fired plastic bullets and tear-gas grenades into a Catholic mob that had come to lob rocks and bottles at Protestant marchers, who, for the first time since 1969, had been allowed to follow the traditional parade route...
Like Newcombe, Connors is adept at mixing strokes. "When a guy's playing Jimmy," says Pancho, "he doesn't know what to expect. Jimmy will stay back and play base line, then rush the net. He can lob you or beat you down the alley with a winner. He's impossible to predict." Much of the credit for that unpredictability belongs to Segura, a Clausewitz of subtle shots and stratagems. As a small player who uses a two-handed forehand, Segura is in many ways the perfect teacher for Connors. Before all of Connors' big matches, he and Pancho, currently...