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Word: interceptions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sweep. Half-time score: Navy 17, Army 0. Then Army rallied for two touchdowns, and suddenly Bellino was in danger of becoming the Navy goat when he fumbled the ball. But when Army tried a long pass in the closing seconds, there was Bellino to intercept on the one, run back the ball for 44 yds. and preserve a 17-12 victory for Navy. After the game, Navy accepted an invitation to play Missouri in the Orange Bowl. ¶ Bouncing into the air like a giant Pogo stick, the Philadelphia Warriors' skyscraping (7 ft. 2 in., 260 Ibs.) Wilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...part of Communist-directed elements in the internal affairs of Guatemala and Nicaragua through the landing of armed forces or supplies from abroad." As explained by the State Department, this meant that U.S. forces would conduct a regular search of the Caribbean, but would not act to intercept suspicious vessels unless 1) those ships were within the three-mile territorial limits of Nicaragua and Guatemala, and 2) those countries specifically requested the U.S. Navy to intercept. One job of the electronics-crammed destroyers will be to detect small fishing boats or yachts-or possibly foreign submarines-and prevent them from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Notice Posted | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...start, The Game took on the air of a staged affair, as ABC-TV directors wandered all over the Stadium seemingly ready to cue in the players on where to run, when to fumble, and--unfortunately--how to intercept passes. But the game produced several interesting surprises, and even the score was not the 55 to 0 mentioned in Yale's pre-game script...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Yale Takes Advantage of Breaks | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...dangerous, but they make a loud rat-a-tat-tat sound. To the space traveler, the chief harm that they can do is psychological. So Whipple suggests that the nerves of spacemen be shielded from this hazard by surrounding their capsule by a thin metal shell that wi!! intercept the speeding dust particles but will not transmit to the capsule the unnerving sounds that they make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spaceman's Rat-a-Taf-Tat | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...Still hobbled by the loss of injured Quarterback Charles Ravenel, Harvard hung on until the last few minutes before it was able to push over a touchdown, intercept a last-minute pass on its own 4-yd. line, to squeak past Columbia, 8-7. ¶ After a frustrating, fumble-filled game, Michigan's Wolverines got off a desperation fourth-quarter pass that caromed off a couple of Northwestern defenders before End Bob Johnson snagged it on the 1-ft. line. It took two more plays for Michigan to cross the goal and beat the Wildcats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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