Word: armor
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...Athens one hot morning last week, Greece's King Paul and 60 military men gathered to watch an ordnance test. At a signal from a dark-eyed, black-haired man in a black suit, a 3.5-in. bazooka was fired five times at a sheet of 8-in. armor. It punched five gaping holes in it. When the test ended, a U.S. Army colonel stepped up to the man in the black suit, Bodossakis Athanassiades, and formally approved $17 million in offshore-procurement contracts for him to make bazooka rockets for NATO...
...Eugene Pallette successfully blusters through the role of Joe Martin, grocery-store magnate and the girl's father, interested only in the grossest of profit and spectacle. He transports gloomy Glourie Castle to sunny Florida, outfitting it with radios in suits of armor and Venetian gondolas "to give that European look" to the moat--the ultimate in unintentional incongruity. Pallette makes the most of the only part which requires genuine interpretation...
...provoked so many chuckles by stating good sense in metrical nonsense that many readers have never paused to appraise the discipline, economy and pungency of the Nash poem at its best. One of the best in this collection is The Visit. Here, in two dozen lines, is the whole armor of Ogden Nash-the sardonic side glance, the aptly distorted word, the poised cold shoulder, the burial of victims in clichés of their own choosing...
...close to the speed of sound in the thin air of upper altitudes. Soon they will be cruising and fighting still higher and far faster. Sponsored by the Air Force and the Navy, the nation's aircraft factories are turning out sleek, powerful experimental aircraft, unburdened by armor or guns, that are punching their way into the stratosphere at more than double the speed of sound. A few of them can fly fast enough to nudge the implacable thermal barrier (a speed limit of about 2,500 m.p.h.-TIME, May 26). Between them, the Air Force and the Navy...
...sailed for a long cruise in the barkentine St. George, which visited remote islands in the Pacific to collect specimens for the Natural History Museum in London. But I myself was never employed by the museum; I just went along for the trip. I have also studied medieval armor for my own pleasure . . . But I am not in the true sense an expert ... In fact, at the present moment, my sole occupation is writing books, an ill-paid and precarious employment. I wish I had a niche...