Word: acked
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...show's great weakness-which puts Pennsylvania's rusticities miles behind Oklahoma !'s-is its uninspired score. This ack of musical verve-there isn't too much dancing, either-helps explain why Plain and Fancy has a lot of sociological charm but very little social gaiety; why it smells of apples that seem uniformly destined for pie rather than cider...
...Sept. 1 the Joint Chiefs of Staff upgraded and expanded the three-year-old Air Defense Command. General Chidlaw took operational control of all Army ack-ack and missile battalions, Navy patrol squadrons and radar picket ships, Marine Corps and Air National Guard fighter outfits assigned to air defense. The rechristened Continental Air Defense Command became an independent force reporting directly to the Joint Chiefs, who spelled out its mission in seven words: "Defend the United States against air attack...
...made several big decisions. Items: ¶ Britain's antiaircraft command, which employs 100,000 regulars and reserves, is soon to be abolished. Reason: the Red air force's sweptwing, supersonic T-39 bomber (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) flies well above the range of Britain's heaviest ack-ack guns. MacMillan hopes to replace the gun batteries with radar-directed rockets, able to find and destroy enemy bombers traveling at 1,000 m.p.h. at heights up to 60,000 ft. But such rockets might take years to perfect and produce. ¶ The Royal Navy, most of whose ships...
...artillery plastering. In reply, for seven straight days last week, Chiang's forces attacked the mainland around Amoy with planes, artillery and fire from destroyers and gunboats. F-84 jets from Formosa joined the battle, pouring rockets and napalm on the enemy. The Communists answered with artillery and ack-ack. They did not use their MIGs -reflecting the caution they displayed in Korea, where MIGs did not venture over the front lines...
...Viet Minh's ack-ack spat up at him, Earthquake made the wide circling letdown to 1,500 ft., lumbered across the deep valley until the "kickers" shoved the load out through the big rear door over the ever-shrinking drop zone. Four times Earthquake's plane was hit. Once a slug cut his elevator controls, and he had to fly home on the trim tabs. Reported Earthquake cheerfully: "We could make it go up or down, but never stay level. We went home like a kangaroo...