Word: strike
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...receivers got in on the action, and his timely carries—including a touchdown on a key fourth-down conversion in the second quarter—helped the Crimson to a 14-0 first-half lead. He looked especially precise on his first touchdown pass, a 35-yard strike that fell perfectly into the outstretched arms of senior wideout Matt Lagace, who reached the endzone without breaking stride. “We had a lot of good things [happen], and I’m proud of my guys,” O’Hagan said...
...mutual incomprehension. "The north and south don't know each other any more," says Peter Vandermeersch, editor of the Flemish daily newspaper De Standaard. "Old-guard politicians would meet, if not publicly, then privately. They would play the parts of the staunch Fleming or Walloon, but they would strike a deal...
...floor of the Senate, Bush can allow most of the moderate Republican Senators who are up for re-election next year - Norm Coleman of Minnesota, John Sununu of New Hampshire and Gordon Smith of Oregon - to vote with the Democrats. That would permit endangered Republicans to strike an independent pose with voters and still enable Bush to sustain a veto in the House...
Though Wednesday's arrests of three radical Islamists preparing terror strikes in Germany was dramatic, many of the tactics and habits the suspects have demonstrated while under surveillance are not particularly new to terrorism investigators. Indeed, one of the main assets counter-terrorism officials file away from each attempted or executed strike are shared similarities that raise their chances of heading off future attacks before they happen...
...autonomously, or inspired and shaped from places like Pakistan - will almost always be attempted in countries and against targets where success has been judged greater, and by operatives best placed to pull them off: locals. The immediate political calculations often ascribed to such schemes - the German plot seeking to strike U.S. installations for its involvement in Iraq, and to also force Berlin to pull its troops from Afghanistan, for example - are actually usually secondary concerns...