Word: armored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Widen, his eyes corked black to cut glare, swung his twin-engined P-38 sharply over a German-held airfield in Tunis, put an Me 109 in his gunsight and blasted away. Just as the 109 coughed black smoke, a sudden clatter of shells peppered Widen's armor plate from behind, clipped his helmet and set his own plane afire. Quickly, Widen pulled back on his throttles and bailed out. As he drifted toward the ground, Widen saw his assailant: another Me 109 was circling him menacingly. Mindful of stories that Nazis had been known to finish off parachuting...
After a painful self-examination. De Chirico emerged in 1930, at the age of 41, with a radical change of style: a neoclassic Rubens-like technique featuring long-maned nudes, long-maned horses, knights in armor, and a series of self-portraits, some clothed in fancy dress and some in flabby flesh. To the artist's bitter dismay, his one-man revolution, aimed at the "horrible bestiality called modern art," failed to spark a following. Cognoscenti shunned the new technique and subject matter; De Chirico stubbornly stuck to his anachronistic style...
...also showed slides picturing Sudanese obelisks taller than those built by the Pharoahs, knights in armor roaming Africa at the time of the Age of Chivalry in Europe, and the famous University at Timbuktu...
...dumps, disposition of ships. He noted, among many other things, that U.S. battleships were often moored in pairs; this indicated that torpedo attacks against the inboard ships would be ineffectual. That report, he says, "caused a strong emphasis on dive-bombing with specially built bombs evolved from 16-in. armor-piercing shells...
...fascinated by your Camelot story. It brought back gleeful memories of being bound in chain armor to play King Arthur himself (because I had the deepest voice in the class of girls) in Sir Henry Irving's version of the play with the same name...