Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevada's grizzled, barrel-shaped Senator Pat McCarran went on the warpath last week for the umptieth time in his ten-year career of hatcheting the New Deal. (As far back as 1934 the maverick Pat used to hunt with Huey Long on the President's trail.) This time Pat McCarran was after the bald scalp of birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle...
...Town Meeting" is devoted to the unrehearsed, give-&-take discussion of public affairs by assorted experts, is somewhat weighted on the conservative side. "Town Meeting," said the Digest's editors, will "implement the Digest's confidence in 'cracker-barrel' discussion ... as an essential part of the democratic process...
...millimeters equal one inch; a 75 is roughly a 3-in. gun. *The distinctions between "gun" and "howitzer" generally: the howitzer is lighter, has a shorter barrel, is more mobile; a howitzer with the same mobility as a gun fires a much heavier projectile but with a lower muzzle velocity and at a shorter range...
...Heavies. Mightiest of the mobile weapons are the 8-in. and 240-mm., which have to be transported in two parts (barrel and carriage). U.S. artillerymen consider their most accurate weapon the 8-in. howitzer, which fires a 200-lb. shell 10.5 miles...
...Heavies. Mightiest of the mobile weapons are the 8-in. and 240-mm., which have to be transported in two parts (barrel and carriage). U.S. artillerymen consider their most accurate weapon the 8-in. howitzer, which fires a 200-lb. shell 10.5 miles...