Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rifle is pulled, a powerful spring drives a cocked plunger into a cylinder, compressing and heating the trapped air to about 2,000° F. Escaping into the firing chamber through a valve, a jet of heated air strikes and ignites the propellant, which pushes the missile through the barrel (see diagram). Because the heated air helps the propellant to oxidize completely, there are no unburned traces left to foul the barrel. V-L test rifles have been fired up to 50,000 times without cleaning or other maintenance...
Quite by accident, they meet the last man on earth-an aged Adam, too feeble to father children. His prize possession is a windup Gramophone with one record, Roll Out the Barrel, a toy the girls covet. At his dwelling-the abandoned Hotel Ozone-the old lady enjoys one final, dreamlike dinner by candlelight. Then she dies, knowing that the race will die with her and with the girls she has overseen since their childhood. Her charges pack up to resume their wandering, and try to take the Gramophone with them. When the old man protests, they gun him down...
...Colonel Henry Miller, chief of Army heavy maintenance in Saigon. Many Marines in the battle above Khe Sanh had been issued their M-16s only a few days before the fight, and were probably unfamiliar with the weapon's demands: constant lubrication, thorough wire-brush reaming of the barrel to prevent leading, "fire discipline" that limits bursts to two or three rounds at a crack...
Westmoreland, in an unusually warm tribute at change-of-command ceremonies last week in Danang, pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Walt's barrel chest and said: "My admiration for this man is without bounds. General Walt is a Marine's Marine and a soldier's soldier. He's not only big physically but big morally, a man of almost unique professional abilities, an officer of great courage and outstanding leadership attributes...
...Downs Jr. $114 in repair bills, but the bus company's insurer offered him only half that amount-take it or leave it. He will take it. "It would cost more than $57 to fight the suit," says Downs. "They've got me over a barrel...