Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away came a whining roar, and the whole sky seemed to be screaming toward us. Something like the sound of a dozen railway trains thrashed overhead, and the slope back of the tanks erupted. Soldiers looked up wide-eyed, and one said: "That must be that six-barreled rocket gun." (Prisoners had told us of this new German weapon, some with six barrels, some with five, on a revolving, electrically driven cylinder, firing five or six rocket shells almost simultaneously.) Our Honey tanks began climbing up the slope toward us, "Goddamn them," said an infantry officer...
...himself. The unit on the hill had only one anti-tank gun. Officers sometimes fired the gun. They manhandled it on a wall, firing first at tanks to the right, then at tanks to the left. A captain seized a bazooka (the army's famed anti-tank rocket weapon), knocked out a tank 25 yards away. A lieutenant colonel of paratroopers, who had stumbled on the battalion and stayed with it, knocked out another tank with a bazooka, then was killed. Officers and men battled the waves of tanks with grenades, rifles, machine guns. In the desperation of that...
Skyrocket. For years Consolidated struggled along as a modest steel fabricator (one of its big jobs was making spillway gates, tunnel forms, for Boulder Dam) until the defense program handed it a sky rocket. But it was Alden Roach who touched it off, watched his company soar to its present annual rate of $250,000,000, almost 150 times the bleak...
...Army's newest sensation, the one-man rocket gun-"bazooka"-that can stop a tank (TIME, April 5) may cause a further revision of artillery production...
Botanists haunted bomb cavities for London rocket (Sisymbrium irio), which flourished after the great fire of 1666. Already 95 types of flowers and shrubs unknown for decades before the blitz have been found in holes where nitrates from burning bombs have enriched the soil...