Word: breech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council for Democracy in Education in the meantime has submitted a written account of the anti-discrimination case, part of which reads: "We feel this to be a question of national interest, involving not only a breech of democracy in our armed forces which should be built for the defense of democracy, but also a flat contradiction between the statement of an Admiral of our Navy and the sworn affidavit of two members of Harvard University...
...trying for top firing speed with the big gun. . . . We might get up as high as 30 a minute." Any such rate of fire would take some doing. Two men load and fire the 75. The loader has to kneel in a tiny steel coop. Between the breech and a bulkhead, he has about three feet in which to work. When the gun recoils, he has something less than two feet. At 30 rounds a minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract a 75-mm. shell casing from a semiautomatic breech, allow a split second for the gases...
Lady in the Dark has swarthy Victor Mature, latest in Hollywood's series of almost outrageously beautiful young men, who appears in every costume the feminine audience could wish, from breech clout to dress suit. Prepossessing young Macdonald Carey is the editress' eventual sweetheart. And Danny Kaye is very funny as a pansy fashion photographer who in true Cecil Beatonish style photographs a suit of armor with a blue chiffon scarf wrapped around its metal neck and stuffed doves perched on its shoulders. In the circus dream he scores the comic hit of the show with a jabberwockian song consisting...
Near Ashland, Wis., Evelyn Kramer took a shot at a buck. It didn't move a step. Hastily she rammed in another shell, pulled the trigger, got no report. By the time she had opened the breech and extracted her lipstick case from the shell chamber, the buck had dropped - dead from the first shot...
...Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association last week, Dr. Hawker noted that surgical interference was necessary twice as frequently for the 102 heavyweights (14.7%) as for the whole series (7.2%). The ratio of the common head presentation to the uncommon breech presentation was the same for the big babies as for the whole group, but three out of four of the hindside-first heavyweight babies were lost. Altogether eight of the big babies died before or during delivery. But among their mothers there were only two cases of hemorrhage after birth, and not one mother died...