Word: skips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fugitive from Selective Service tried to skip across an ice floe, fell in. Pursuing FBI men fished...
...Japs sent up a major intercepting force. Now, relying on ack-ack for defense, they hoarded what planes they could for the crisis they foresaw. The U.S. planes ranged as far as Lingayen Gulf, sinking and firing enemy ships. Marine Corps Corsairs, rigged as fighter-bombers, skip-bombed and strafed targets in southern Luzon; they found some ammunition trains which blew up with a satisfying display...
...conservative side, Harlow inaugurated during his reign such startling innovations as shifting defenses and the T formation. Ample proof of his ability is the fact that his former assistants are now spread out in important coaching jobs all over the country, including Earl Brown at Dartmouth and Skip Stahley at Brown...
...still too weak to turn over in bed without help, let alone take regular gym exercises. He has to try them anyway. Frank Scares, 35, lost his right leg at Oran when somebody fumbled a souvenir German grenade. When Scares' gym instructor recently asked him to skip rope, he managed three jumps, then fainted...
Great credit is due Colonel Cochran but don't skip General Old when you hand out the flowers. He's not a funny-paper character or an ex-movie star, but about the best damned air commander in the A.A.F. . . . What's more, he's been feeding, rearming, reinforcing and remuling these forces ever since. And the Jap bloody well knows what's going...