Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian gun, nicknamed "the Goose" by G.I.s because of its long (13 ft.) barrel, fires a shell with an extra-heavy propellant charge, can drill a clean hole through 5½ inches of armorplate at 500 yards. Mounted on wheels, it is light enough (about 2,500 Ibs.) to be moved about handily by its crew of five. U.S. tank commanders and crews took the Goose with professional calm. Said one tankman: "For months we have had it soft. Now we have to fight our tanks as tanks should be fought...
...million worth of pork-barrel projects tucked into the rivers & harbors bill by Harry Truman, slapped away the eager hands of members pleading for pet projects, sent the $514,400,000 appropriation to the Senate...
...Korean national police band played its own version of The Beer Barrel Polka, while near by another band added to the din by banging vigorously on tattered drums and rusty cymbals. The Andong middle-school chorus, girls dressed up in white smocks and blue pleated skirts, boys in little white caps, blue shirts and white trousers, sang the U.S. and South Korean national anthems. Then, amid cheers, Colonel Tandy cut the ribbon, formally opened Andong's new bridge...
...encyclical Pascendi in 1907 condemned, lock, stock & barrel, the theological trend toward Modernism, which tended to look upon religion as a subjective experience and the church as a purely human institution in the process of evolution. Pius X called this "a synthesis of all heresies," cracked down so hard on Modernism that some Catholics called the encyclical harsh. Retorted Cardinal Mercier of Belgium: "If in the days of Luther and Calvin the church had possessed a Pope of the temper of Pius, would Protestantism have succeeded in getting a third of Europe to break loose from Rome...
...road to Detroit's airport, a half-mile-long line of cars crawled along bumper to bumper behind a huge trailer-truck. Suddenly one car swerved out of line, passed the others and drew up alongside the slow-moving truck. Out jumped a barrel-chested, thick-necked man who poked his head in the cab and said: "Why don't you pull over? You're the kind of guy that makes people mad at truckers...