Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thing. The U.S. Marine Corps ordered production of Ontos [Greek for The Thing], a fast (40 m.p.h.), tracked antitank vehicle. Bristling with six recoilless 106-mm. rifles, the 8.5-ton Ontos relies on hit-and-run tactics rather than heavy armor for survival, uses .50-cal. machine guns to sight in on a target with tracer bullets, then fires off its heavy battery and runs for cover to reload...
...only experience Johnston records in Paris is of an unsuccessful brothel crawl. Soon he was back with Patton, blasting a path towards the Americans encircled in Bastogne. That Christmas, General Patton issued greeting cards with a prayer for good weather so that his fighter-bombers could strafe the Nazi armor. When the skies began clearing slowly, old Blood and Guts ordered: "Print 500 more of those prayers...
...might give to preparation for brain surgery or nuclear physics. Dürer's engraving of Knight, Death and Devil hung over his crib, he recalls, and "I was a wood carver before I was a Boy Scout. At nine, I took a course in arms and armor. I got two years off from prep school to visit the art centers of Europe...
...prey in a proper state of torpor, the caterpillar-hunting wasp sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant...
Behind the Smile. The Etruscans' assurance of life after death, which amused the early Romans, gave Etruscan art one of the sunniest outlooks in history. Early Etruscan warriors were turned out in some of the handsomest armor ever made, and the statues which preserve them for posterity show them wearing an enigmatic antique smile...