Word: maneuverer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard had loaded the bases with one but when John Dockery caught the Lion defense off balance with a perfect bunt. Neil Houston scored easily from third and Columbia pitcher George Bunting left holding the ball when no one bothered to cover first. Jeff Grate repeated the maneuver, with Joe...
With Strozier's help on lineouts and hooker John Rice's fine play in the scrum, the offense controlled the ball most of the game. Cornell drew first blood, however, on a scissors play, a maneuver where the scrum half and fly half make a pincers-like movement on an...
The first word about the latest Russian space feat came, as usual, not from a Moscow spokesman but from a greying British scientist. Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, 52, who used the University of Manchester's 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, to track the Soviet spaceship Luna...
The bomb rested, half shrouded by its own grey parachute, on a steep 70° slope on the ocean floor. The danger was that it might slip farther down the incline into the craggy depths of a 3,000-ft. undersea valley in which the midget submarines could not maneuver...
When the Gemini capsule is operating properly, its attitude in orbit can be changed by firing strategically placed thrusters that can roll the vehicle, yaw its nose to one side or the other, or pitch it up or down. Once thrusters have been fired to change the orientation of the...