Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armored vest protects against small, low-velocity fragments, is lighter than Korean war armor, better designed for protection at vital throat areas...
...Armor. The time had come to stand up and be counted. Paratroop General Jacques Massu, the figurehead co-president of the Algiers Public Safety Committee, promptly if grumpily strode into a committee meeting, accompanied by subordinates in white uniforms, to announce: "Gentlemen, in execution of the order of the chief of government, we quit." Undeterred, the civilian members of the committee called for a general strike against De Gaulle's directive...
...playmates who had a show in life, because their fathers drank every week," he says. So Stagg never drank. And beyond a couple of corn silks as a kid, he has never smoked. The one chink in Stagg's Spartan do-without-it armor is candy. He has always kept sourballs or similar hard candies on his dining table, has also allowed himself the smallest of indulgences in the smallest of ways: he cuts a stick of gum into three or four smidgens, chews one minuscule fragment at a time...
...Manhattan for another close-up inspection. With mounting excitement he dated the marble, through ultraviolet examination, as from the 16th century. The workmanship, he found, was Renaissance in character. A few details-unsmoothed caliper marks on the cheeks, one wing of the Medusa head on Cosimo's armor -seemed unfinished. Otherwise the statue was in near-perfect condition...
...second half began, Skypeck, looking for flaws in the Crimson's defensive armor, found a huge one--the varsity's traditionally weak pass defense. With the ball on Cornell's 25, Skypeck pitched back to fullback Phil Taylor, who tossed 32 yards complete to end Norm Juvonen, the Big Red's pass catching specialist. Then, on the next play, Skypeck fired to Juvonen again for 12 yards to the Crimson...