Word: lob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With their maneuverability, the Hueys can slide back and forth just a few feet over the sun-scorched rice fields, sorting out their targets like cowboys cutting steers from a herd. On one recent mission, the desperate Reds tried to lob hand grenades into the open side doors of the low-circling choppers. When two Hueys tried to box in and capture a fleeing Red guerrilla, he suddenly wheeled and headed straight for them, a hand grenade in each hand. A burst of gunfire from the choppers cut him down; both grenades exploded beneath his body. From the door...
...weeks ago, the Morgan Staters renewed their effort-joined by white students from Johns Hopkins University and Goucher, a girls' college. In mixed groups, the students entered the Northwood lob by to buy tickets. Each time, the theater manager read aloud the Maryland trespass law. Arrests followed, and in seven days, 413 demonstrators were hauled off to jail. Most refused to post bail, set as high as $600, instead crowded six and seven to a cell, spilled over into corridors, and clambered around the penal premises...
McCarthy chose a different receiver for the next touchdown--Al Snyder--who took a short lob and scampered the 45 remaining yards opposed by only a few Crimson tacklers...
...Problems of the world-Khrushchev's threat to lob rockets to the underside of the U.S., the gathering in Geneva, and the gunfire in Guatemala and Viet Nam-all find their proper places in this week's news budget. But some of the out-of-the-way stories in the issue are not to be missed. Just as France's famed gourmet Guide Michelin (see THE WORLD) confers one, two or three stars on France's best restaurants and decrees which are "worth a detour,'' our own chefs have a few specialties...
...three points. Neiderhoffer won the first on a reverse corner from his backhand, and is the rally for the second point drew his opponent out of position with a backhand shot off the left side wall into the right front corner. Meyer was only able to lob the ball back, and Neiderhoffer won the point on the next shot...