Word: tip-off
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...tip-off was the havoc created by the electronic "pilot fish" that, as the North Vietnamese know by now, often precede the B-52s: EB-66 Destroyers and EA-6B Intruders, whose bulges, pods and blisters house those gadgets designed to confuse ground radar, as well as needle-nosed F-105 "wild weasels," whose special radiation-seeking missiles lock onto and streak toward active enemy radar installations. Then, after the pilot fish, came the sharks: 17 B-52s. The B-52s dropped their 30-ton bomb loads into the darkness over Haiphong from 30,000 feet. The explosions destroyed...
...Harvard basketball team moves into its final weekend of play with a two game schedule at the IAB Friday night, the Crimson hoopsters will. host Columbia's Lions. Saturday night, the Big Red of Cornell will lock horns with the Harvard cagers. Tip-off time for both games is 7:30 p.m. The weekend marks the final games for Harvard seniors Jonas Honick, captain Jeff Hill, and Dave Rogers. Ivy League Basketball Standings W L 1) Princeton 11 1 2) Penn 11 2 3) Columbia 7 5 4) Brown 5 7 5) Yale 4 7 6) HARVARD...
...only time the Crimson had the psychological advantage was before the tip-off. Dartmouth has violated the no-dunk rule in its pre-game warm-ups, and the Crimson's Jim Fitzsimmons made the technical and Floyd Lewis tallied the ensuing jumpshot...
...newly elaborate and sophisticated formula. Directed by Italian Elio Petri-if not for exclusively American capital (Euro International), at least with U. S. distribution (Columbia) ever in mind-the production won an Academy Award last week for the Best Foreign ( sic ) Film of 1971. Which is a pretty good tip-off that no matter how "controversial" its politics, this pictures poses no political threat to anybody's system. Jean-Luc Godard recently said: "If movie makers were building airplanes, there would be an accident every time one took off. But in the movies, these accidents are called Oscars." Instead...
...James Reagan, chief of the Cambridge police, declined comment on where the information which led to the search and arrest came from. However, the arrested student pointed out that a painting crew was in his room on Friday, the day of the search, and raised the possibility of a tip-off originating from one of the painters...