Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cannot be depended upon to select those seconds unfailingly. The radar gunsight (still under thick wraps) makes all the calculations automatically. It tracks the target, measuring its distance, direction and relative speed. All the pilot has to do is keep the target inside a circle of light on his windshield. When the enemy plane is in a position where it will be hit, the gunsight knows it -and fires the guns...
Workmen began digging up the sidewalk in front of the Varsity Liquor Store yesterday, to make way for the foundation of a police kiosk for the Square. The new concrete box will rise 18 feet from the street and be equipped with loudspeakers, a heater, and windshield wipers...
...fireman, Herbert F. Shea, was cut in the eye by pieces of a light bulb thrown at the windshield of his fire truck. He was taken to Cambridge City Hospital Sunday night, treated, and sent home. The Fire Department reported yesteday that Shea was back on the job with his eye bandaged, and that he was in no danger of losing his sight...
...Voice of America. He hired a helicopter, plastered a big sign on it: "Here's Bill Benton," and went hopping about the state like a man on an aerial pogo stick. A leather-chair type gladhander, he strove for the common touch. At country fairs, he handed out windshield stickers and buttons, told the crowd: "I will say for you ladies that I've had an experience such as you may understand. Men's trousers weren't made to be worn in helicopters-the cold air goes right up them...
...dark suit, pearl-grey fedora and canary-yellow gloves, Drury drove his new black Cadillac home. At 6:45 he backed into the garage. Two men stepped out of the darkness and faced the car. With a shotgun and a .45, they punched four holes in the windshield. The first slugs knocked Drury's hat to the seat; the rest plowed into his head and body. An hour later Bill Drury was dead-without a hat on. Upstairs on his desk was a telephone message: the Kefauver committee had called to say it would arrange to give...