Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Bob Kelley. George didn't draw the defenseman to make the pass to Kelley, and he only dribbled a shot on B.U. goalie Jim Craig. Jack had his chance with a one-on-one against B.U. defenseman Bill LeBlond. Jack made no move and chucked a wrist shot onto the glass behind the B.U. goal...
...bouts, Harvard leading the last bout 4-1, the meet tied 55-55 in touches. Thirty seconds left, 25...20...15...10.... Cooper beats Mejias's blade down, lunges forward, touches her in the underarm. Harvard takes the match by one touch, the Harvard fencers stream onto the strip cheering frantically, joy abounds...
That clipped series of radio messages-from an F-15 pilot reporting a "kill" during a training mission-tells much about modern air combat and why the planes best at it are in demand. Translated, the pilot's message is that his radar has locked onto an enemy plane-a "Judy" in U.S. airmen's jargon-67° to the right of his aircraft and that the missile he fired sent the enemy spiraling into the sea. Flying at speeds of up to 2,000 m.p.h.-33 miles a minute-the pilot got his splash faster than...
...these. Managing this arsenal, while also flying at speed and keeping track of other craft, can be a handful, which is why pilots are particularly fond of the Heads Up Display panel, or HUD. This is a device that projects all the computerized combat-and flight-performance data right onto the windshield in a green phosphorescence that stands out even in strong sunlight. Thus the pilot does not have to look down at his instruments and can keep his eyes on the sky ahead-with an occasional glance at his rear-view mirror to see what may be behind...
...plays the head of a Boston hospital where young, healthy patients keep going into unexplained comas during routine operations. When he explains why he's doing it--the unimportance of the individual compared with the advancement of science--to a drugged Genevieve Bujold, the young doctor who has stumbled onto the terrible secret, the scene rings familiar. Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill and a thousand others have been here before, and one wonders why Widmark isn't indulging in similar eye-rolling or stuttering. Crichton forces him to become a stoic zombie, as if to hide what...