Word: blunderbussing
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Knockout Punch. Behind the rapid-fire left jabs of its M16s, the infantry squad carries a knockout punch in the blunderbuss-shaped M-79 grenade launcher. "Beautiful little seventy-niners," the Marines call them, particularly when a 40-mm. grenade-spring-loaded with half-inch steel barbs -pops in the middle of a Viet Cong position 385 yds. away. The M-79 has two drawbacks: it is only a single-shot weapon (good grenadiers get off 16 rounds per minute), and its grenades are armed only after a flight of 30 meters through the air-in order to protect...
When it came to exalting personal honor, behavior and character in the face of depressing surroundings, Mama Levenson had one surefire blunderbuss in her arsenal. She fought dirt because of its corrupting influence not only on floors and walls ("Her fight against dirt was based on the premise that circumstances make poor, but people make dirt") but on human moral fiber as well. Mama and Papa both believed, furthermore, that children should be disciplined with whatever was handy-shaving strops, wooden ladles, rolled-up newspapers-instead of psychology. Writes Levenson: "I didn't know that fathers were not supposed...
...stand looks like a portable museum of musical instru ments. Dangling from his neck is a manzello, a quasi saxophone that forgot to grow up, and a stritch, which resembles a dented blunderbuss and hangs well below his knees. The third instrument is more familiar; it is a tenor sax, and stuffed into its bell is a flute. The musician rocks back and forth on his feet as if uncertain how to begin. Then he makes his decision. He puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like...
This year, too, everything was handled differently by Big Steel. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, the industry's blunderbuss leader in 1962, kept his head down. Instead of acting in too-obvious concert, the industry's leaders behaved as if they had only just learned of one another's existence by reading the newspapers. In contrast with across-the-board raises in 1962, Wheeling's price hikes were highly selective. About all the reaction in public that the Wheeling increase got from Kennedy was a statement that he still considered across-the-board price boosts inflationary...
...which the party of 18 hopes to mount without oxygen tanks. But getting most of the headlines so far was an expedition sideline: Hillary's quest for the Abominable Snowman. Although he suspects that the abomination is just a snow job, Hillary is toting a special, hypodermic-firing blunderbuss with a so-yd. kayo range to make sure that he is ready for yeti...