Word: near-misses
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After several near-miss slap shots, McLaughlin drilled the puck at Tanner from 20 feet, and Fischer deflected the shot perfectly for a hat trick and tie score...
...three types of the Hughes Falcon and the Navy's Sidewinder, but such missiles must make a direct hit to kill, can be deflected by enemy countermeasures. Most promising experimental Air Force air-to-air missile: the Douglas Genie, a non-guided atomic missile that can kill at near-miss range of half a mile or more by the brute force of its explosion. Genie has been test-fired successfully in Nevada...
...Holguin began figuring feverishly, then announced the results over the intercom. The bomb would have landed, quite literally, within a stone's throw of the target. This was better than close enough, since, with the H-bombs SAC planes will carry in combat, a three-mile near-miss would be a kill...
...were attempting the impossible, but in fact, the angle of fire was so arranged that the bullets would pass well above his wife's body. Besides, Aal had told his friends, it was not really necessary to score a direct hit on the balls; the wind of a near-miss would just as easily bring them down...
Bend of the River (Universal) sheds enough Technicolored blood to drench half a dozen ordinary westerns. It starts with a near-miss when Jimmy Stewart, guide of an Oregon-bound wagon train, saves Arthur Kennedy from being lynched as a horse thief. Soon they are both busy sticking knives into a raiding party of Shoshone Indians...