Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week, with the season half over, Sawchuk's armor-plated defense had kept the scoring count against him to an average of less than two goals per game. With the Red Wings' big line busily pumping the puck home past rival goalies, the National Hockey League race had narrowed down to a backstretch duel between Toronto's front-running Maple Leafs and Detroit's fast-closing Red Wings...
...morale of the surviving U.S. troops had been severely shaken by the knowledge that all their shiny weapons and equipment, their sensational blitz tactics, their mountain of supplies, their tanks, trucks, artillery and air power could not hold back a horde that moved on foot, without air support, without armor and with hardly any weapon larger than a mortar. The American fighting man had moved a long way from the revolutionary rabble of 1775; he had become, in a manner of speaking, the British Redcoat of 1950-confident of superiority and aware of the power of a great nation behind...
Timeless Buffoon Durante had a superb foil in the Metropolitan Opera's strapping Wagnerian Soprano, Helen Traubel. From his first baffled exclamation at seeing her in Brünnhilde's armor ("Holy smoke, she's been drafted!"), through a passage from Die Walküre (in which Durante was a voiceless, baffled Siegmund), to his piteous attempts to pin a corsage on her coat of mail, Durante brilliantly played the role of a frustrated longhair...
...Koreans, was not given up without a fight. The Reds were dug in and well concealed on a slope overlooking a blown bridge. They expected to shoot up the approaching U.S. force when it stopped to ponder ways & means of getting across the stream. But the U.S. column was armor-tipped, and the tanks apparently panicked two of the waiting North Koreans; they broke from their foxholes and ran. That gave the Red play away. The U.S. tanks splashed across the stream while doughfeet swarmed across the bridge's torn girders. The Reds who stayed in their holes were...
...supply services. In fire power, unit for unit, French and Communist forces are evenly matched. Ho now has heavy artillery, no air force. But the Communists are building airfields on both sides of the Chinese border. A French airman has reported seeing six or seven enemy armored cars or tanks at Caobang. French armor is old and in bad repair...