Word: lob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know of no other explanation for this stranger lack than to submit that there to one target with science in its tide which is as safe to lob bricks as at the home of only low on town science fiction. Put it down and the lightning does not strike. To sneer at it is perhaps to express a suspicion that perhaps science has become too much the master, that perhaps science will become aware that dissent exists...
...even the MIG-25 cannot fully match Johnson's masterwork, the sleek SR-71 Blackbird, a plane that can fly so high (100,000 ft.) and so fast (2,000 m.p.h. plus) that it was able to cruise near Peking's first H-bomb explosion over the Lob Nor desert of northeastern Sinkiang province in 1967. It took photographs and gathered data without being damaged by the blast. After such daring forays, SR-71 pilots would decorate their fuselages with the silhouette of a cobra-like poisonous snake called the habu, which inhabits a Pacific island where...
With seven books published in the past five years, Novelist John Gardner, has confounded the theory that quality can only come slowly, and in small doses. Gardner is a professor of English who has managed to lob serious, stylistically adventuresome fiction over the barricades of academic coteries and onto the middle levels of America's bestseller lists. He is also a fabulist with a heart, capable of making the arcane both accessible and emotionally stirring. Near the end of The King's Indian, Gardner briefly introduces himself as a man who, "with the help of Poe and Melville...
...didn't have a sizzler, either. The Cardinals were outplayed by the Crimson at midfield, but they managed to get the one necessary explosive streak in their offense. Midway in the first half Jeff Rutsapa, Cardinal fullback, hit co-captain Carl Cavrelle with a pass. Cavrelle chipped a high lob toward the goal...
Bruin boosters roared their pleasure as their hero gathered in lob passes, then levitated his lanky, 6 ft. 11 in. frame and dropped the ball delicately downward for a basket. At the opposite end of the court, Walton planted himself in front of Oregon State shooters like a giant redwood tree, branches stretching toward the ceiling. Near the end of the game, when Oregon State surged to within three points of U.C.L.A., Walton responded with a torrent of shots and rebounds that kept the Bruins in the lead. For his efforts that evening early this month: 31 points, 19 rebounds...