Word: windedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Corps big-ship crews). There he has a machine gun, convenient in case his ship is jumped by enemy pursuit. Back of him sits the pilot, still farther back two machine-gunners to deal with pursuit attacking from behind. The top gunner rides in a wind-screened cockpit looking for attacks from above. The gunner on the bottom rides in a "dust-bin," on his belly, to range his guns on pursuits attacking from below...
...target, the bombardier leaves his seat, crouches or lies down flat over the bombsight just below his machine gun. Quickly he checks the spirit levels to be sure that the ship is parallel to the ground, other settings that correct for the speed of the plane and the wind drift (which slows a bomb, speeds or deflects it). Then he puts his eye to the eyepiece and takes his sight on his target. From that point until the bombs are dropped the bombardier is in charge of the ship. Training his sight on the target he may well find...
...some day to make use of electrical instruments capable of playing sliding tones, get any desired sounds in any desired rhythm. For the present, Percussionist Cage contents himself with "dragons' mouths," wood blocks, rice bowls hit with chopsticks, temple gongs, pipe lengths, secondhand brake drums, baby rattles, maracas, wind glass, thunder sheets, washboards, cowbells, "fin-gersnaps & footstomps," flower pots, güiro, sirens (for the use of which he had to get police permission), claves, police whistles, the jawbone...
...wind-driven wagon with wind vanes mounted in the wheels...
...have to be satisfied with the poetry of the translated Indian names of the plants that yield the poison - the thick-gold-stick; the toucan-tongue; the vine-which-is-like-a-frog; the magic-stick- that-grows-beside-big-waters; roots from the plant-which-talks-in-the-wind...