Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relying upon his booming serve and overhead smash, Levin built up a quick 5-2 lead in the first set. Beik found his range, however, and began to blaze winners down the line while Levin watched helplessly from the net. Maintaining his defensive strategy. Beik overcame Levin's Californian tactics and pulled out the first...
Without prelude, the rapid approach of a loud, metallic whine overhead transformed normal activity in the township of Umuahia, which now serves as the rebels' headquarters, into frightened cries and panicked running about. A few seconds later, a single low-flying jet plane cut a straight line across the town, releasing as it went six pairs of rockets. Two plowed caverns into the grass huts outside the Red Cross headquarters at Saint Stephen's School, where schoolgirl volunteers sat outside preparing garri for the evening meal...
...upon Jerusalem, arriving in some 25,000 cars and 1,000 buses-a quarter of all such vehicles registered in Israel. Lining the streets or packed into bleachers, they will watch 4,000 uniformed Israelis wend their way through both the old and the new city. Jets will fly overhead, Centurion tanks will rumble past the ancient walls and 66 pieces of captured Arab armor will be displayed. Inaugurating its nationwide TV system, the Israelis will beam the spectacle to Cairo, Amman and other Arab capitals -just in case anyone is watching...
After a slow start, captain Jose Ganzales is finally beginning to roll. Opponents fall like flies, when the husky senior has his booming serve and overhead under control. Gonzales has also teamed with hockey star Kent Parrot to form a crack doubles combination. With Levin on the sidelines, they will occasionally get a shot at the number one spot...
...visit their children, most of whom are encamped there for the duration, and men and women who work on the city's outskirts hurrying inward to visit friends and relatives. But the antiaircraft gunners still keep ready watch, and occasional alerts still sound, triggered by U.S. reconnaissance flights overhead. Hanoi has the mood of a city enjoying an unexpected, slightly eerie-and not quite thoroughly believable-respite...