Word: flak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ground gunners, the attacking jets approached at medium height, climbed abruptly, then dive-bombed their targets, plunging through sheets of bullets and shrapnel. "As we approached, I knew we had a go," said Hopkins. "The weather was beautiful, but the sky was filled with automatic-weapons fire and flak. I laid my bombs down the center of the area occupying the storage buildings and pump houses." Hopkins' co-leader, Major James H. Kasler, 40, of Indianapolis, recalls: "The whole place was going up. Every bomb that went in set off a secondary explosion. As we pulled out, the flak...
...hearing room, were aggressive in presenting their own poverty program on the House floor. Proposing to allocate most of OEO's functions to other agencies, G.O.P. critics denounced Shriver's agency as a "fuddle factory," claimed they could accomplish more with $200 million less. More flak came from an unexpected source, Democratic Representative Edith Green of Oregon, who disclosed that the cost of keeping a single boy in the Job Corps for one year is $9,120-substantially more than previous estimates...
...after the Communists' five weeks' grace, the flak flew thicker over virtually every target. Moreover, reconnaissance showed that Ho Chi Minh's men had hastily implanted ten new SAM sites, bringing to 60 the number of nests across the country able to cradle Ho's Russian rocket launchers. Even the North Vietnamese air force took advantage of the free skies to give its pilots some hasty refresher work in the MIG fighters that Hanoi has largely refrained from using so far. Hanoi also used the hiatus to pump perhaps 6,000 fresh troops down...
...OTTO PIENE, 37, was a teen-age flak gunner in Germany during World War II. He vividly recalls the incredible light patterns of tracers and the bursts of bombs. Says he: "Fright inspires inventiveness and gives birth to giant monsters." In 1950 he helped found the Group Zero in Düsseldorf, which investigated the effects of light. On his own, he designed "light ballets" like sweeping projections of tracer beams. "I want to demonstrate that light is a source of life which has to be continuously rediscovered, to show its expansion as a phenomenal event." His Fixed Star...
...cleared all the way through the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon before the pilots take off. The pilots call the JCS strikes "doomsday missions" because, as Air Force Captain Glenn R. Magathan of Chicago explains, "there's no way in and no way out without flak, and when you get there, they are all stirred up and mad as hornets." "As a matter of fact," he adds, "on our base we call the guy who wakes us up before a JCS strike 'the Grim Reaper'-and it isn't funny either." Hardly...