Word: lob
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...would never give up, no, not ever, at least not until week five when we started to really let things slide. When our term as FM editors ended in December, it appeared that our weak lob of hope had been crushed by the overhand smash of Presidential indifference. The Summers Tennis Watch seemed as useless as the doubles alleys in a singles match. And then, out of the blue, the word came...the Prez was ready to play. Incredibly, as the following Nixon Tapes-esque transcript of a Crimson interview with Summers shows, three “journalists?...
Attempting to use chemical and biological weapons is one thing; successfully delivering them is another. Iraq will probably tip short-range missiles and artillery shells with deadly substances and lob them against invading U.S. forces. But American front-line troops, inoculated and wearing heavy protective gear, will probably overrun Iraqi positions quickly, thus limiting the potential for large casualties. The Iraqis may instead try to target less protected U.S. bases and Israeli cities with longer-range missiles, but that may not work any better. Military experts say Iraq's warheads are not advanced enough to disseminate their payload before impact...
With 1:30 left in regulation, Norman made a spectacular block and then turned on the rocket-boosters, tracking down a long lob pass from Prasse-Freeman and finishing with an authoritative dunk. The slam put Harvard...
...That's because the troops areconfined behind Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, unable to reach the concentrations of al-Qaeda survivors safely ensconced in camps in the mountains surrounding the town of Mirim Shah. From these retreats in Pakistan, al-Qaeda commanders can send out specially trained teams to lob rockets at U.S. bases and air fields. The most U.S. forces can do is disrupt the endless teams of terrorists popping into Afghanistan, closing off their transport routes and seizing weapons and equipment stashed for them by abettors inside the country. "This is the type of warfare that many folks...
...mass destruction, Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee pressured Tenet to declassify testimony by a top aide who rated the likelihood of Saddam's initiating a chemical or biological weapons attack against the U.S. as "low." That testimony appeared to contradict Bush's claim in Cincinnati that Saddam could lob those weapons at the U.S. or its allies "on any given day." Bush sympathizers saw a sellout by the CIA. "That wasn't intelligence, that was pure speculation," groused a former senior Pentagon official...