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...flip the LEASAT's switch into position. The arm is not equipped for such a task, and NASA ground crews had to coach the Discovery astronauts through the fabrication of attachments resembling flyswatters for the arm. While a ground team experimented with a duplicate of the arm, Discovery's "swat" team employed such mundane equipment as Swiss Army knives and a roll of duct tape to turn some plastic tubing, wire, a metal sunshade frame and plastic notebook covers into tools. The makeshift instruments, they hoped, would catch the trigger, initiating a 45-minute sequence that would culminate...
With Cserny using her lengthy wingspan to swat passes in the lane and guards Katie Murphy and Jessica Holsey swarming to errant passes and loose balls, Harvard shot to the top of the Ivies in steals per game (11.08) and turnover margin...
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...season’s second to last game, Holsey went to swat a ball away from a Yale guard, but instead of coming up with the steal, she came away with a stinging shoulder. Her right shoulder popped out of its socket, putting the rest of her freshman season on hold...
...their sublime run to the championship, the Sox put to rest one of baseball's most irresistible legends: that the great George Herman Ruth, a.k.a. Babe, Bambino and Sultan of Swat, had jinxed the team when the Sox sold him to the Yankees in 1920 for $100,000 so that Boston owner Harry Frazee could finance a Broadway show. With Ruth, the Beaneaters won three World Series, the last in 1918. After Ruth, they reaped eight decades of squat, with the occasional run at the title always ending in tragedy, including seventh-game World Series losses to St. Louis...