Word: ammo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rifle replacing the familiar Garand M-1 (adopted in 1936), weighs a pound less (8.7 Ibs.), has a 20-round magazine (v. 8 rounds), fires 7.62-mm. NATO ammunition, which is smaller and lighter than the old .30-cal. ammo. Gone: the bayonet. Interchange of barrels makes the M-15, automatic version of the M-14, almost 7 Ibs. lighter than the Browning Automatic Rifle...
...machine gun also fires 7.62-mm. ammo, replaces light and heavy -30-cal. machine guns of World War I vintage. The first true infantry assault gun of its kind, it can be fired from bipod, tripod, hip or shoulder, weighs 23 Ibs. (v. 30-40 Ibs.), is designed for quick replacement of barrel...
...they had started their trip across the desert without taking the routine precaution of telling the local gendarmery. Armed with a shotgun and a revolver, the ambushed Americans fought off the bandits, seeking shelter behind a rock when their tires were punctured by shots and holding out until their ammo was exhausted. The fight was useless. One morning last week the gendarmes found the bullet-ridden bodies of Wilson, Carroll and their two Iranian companions lying on the scene of the skirmish. Of Anita Carroll the only sign left was a trail of torn paper leading to the bandits...
...Robert Ryan): "We walk out." Then comes a stroke of luck. A jeep comes roaring across an open field. Passengers: a bitter, combat-weary sergeant (Aldo Ray), and his shell-shocked colonel (Robert Keith), debris of a distant battle. The lieutenant takes over the jeep at gunpoint, loads the ammo on it, forces the sergeant to march with the platoon to Hill 465. But is the divisional HQ still there...
...worshipful believers included many rich people from Cuttack and a maharaja or two. Even the police, before breaking into the Kaliaboda math, respectfully obeyed the mad monk's injunction against bringing leather into a holy place: they removed their shoes, belts, holsters, and carried their pistols and ammo loose in their pockets...