Word: arrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under normal circumstances, the engineman of the Pennsylvania Railroad's flyer Red Arrow has a clear track as his train roars through Philadelphia's famed Main Line suburbs on its run from Detroit. But as it came hurtling in toward the city at 7:30 one morning last week, complications developed up ahead; the Philadelphia-bound Pittsburgh Night Express-which was running 48 minutes late on the same track-had been stopped up ahead by a block signal near the station at Bryn Mawr...
Other signals began flashing a warning (repeated by colored lights in the cab of the Red Arrow's 320-ton electric locomotive) back along the narrowing interval of steel between the two trains. Near Villanova, a mile and a quarter west of the stalled express, the oncoming flyer was ordered to "stop & proceed" at no more than 15 m.p.h. The Red Arrow slid obediently to a halt. But when it started again it inexplicably began picking up speed...
...tapered objects, 10 to 15 ft. long and 1 ft. or less in diameter. They are launched from a kind of gunmount. On their tails they have four fixed fins arranged at right angles to one another. These keep the missile stable in flight, like the feathers of an arrow. The control surfaces are four small, triangular, movable fins one-third of the way back from the missile's nose. They can steer the missile, roll it and even give it lift, like an airplane in flight. All the fins have supersonic shapes; they are made of solid metal...
...Military Governor of the Philippines. He died dramatically of a heart attack while addressing a reunion of his old regiment in Milwaukee in 1912. Douglas MacArthur grew up at a succession of Army posts and, as a child at Fort Little Rock, was almost killed by an arrow during the last of the western Indian uprisings...
This went on, Merk explains, until the otter was so tired, he could barely dive, when all the Indians shot arrows at him. The fur pelt went to the man whose arrow lodged closest to the otter...