Word: anti-tank
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...foreign languages dubbed in (among them: The True Glory, with General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking a rippling, dubbed-in Portuguese). Finally, near the end of the course, students cut their way through a jungle of diplomatic, technical and military terms, until such formidable words as protivotankovoe ruzhie (Russian for anti-tank rifle) come tripping off the tongue...
...forces below Seoul closed in on the Han River, Communist anti-tank guns firing from a hill briefly stalled the advance. A company of G.I.s, led by Captain Lewis Millett of South Dartmouth, Mass., charged the crest with fixed bayonets, spitted 47 Chinese, shot down 50 more as they ran down the north slope. The advance continued...
...instruments of modern warfare. Our reports on anti-tank weapons and new warplanes will almost surely be followed by more text-and-picture studies of 1930's military tools and techniques as they come into the news...
...white powder with one and a half times the blasting force of TNT. It was invented by the Germans in 1899, but had been considered too expensive for military use until the U.S. found a way, used it in naval torpedoes and bazooka anti-tank rockets...
Last Friday night a slow, chilly drizzle was falling on South Amboy, but it was shopping night and many housewives were downtown. Over on the river front, a gang of longshoremen worked late. From twelve railroad cars they were unloading a deadly cargo: anti-tank and anti-personnel mines for Pakistan's army, 2,000 cases of dynamite for blasting in Afghanistan. It was a tough but familiar job to the dockers. From the cars they moved the cases across the dock to four lighters, stowed them in neat, harmless-looking piles. When the job was done, the cargo...