Word: breechblocks
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...those plans are digested every Tuesday in a quiet second-floor dining room of the White House, where the President, his Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State discuss the efforts and exigencies of some 500,000 American troops in Viet Nam. They talk about everything from the breechblock of the M-16 (prone to jam) to the accessibility of fresh eggs for artillerymen on the DMZ. Mostly they talk strategy and political ramifications. Thanks to instant communication by satellite, President Johnson can, if need be, keep in direct touch-through existing chains of command-with both Ambassador Bunker...
...fill of suffering in World War I, but the image he carried away with him was the dazzling light of a breechblock gleaming in the sun. When he visited the U.S. some years later, he found beauty not in the lofty mountains or endless plains but in the hectic pace of the cities and their neon gaudiness. He painted the human figure, but said that for him "the human figure has no more importance than keys or bicycles. These are for me objects of plastic value to be used as I wished." He could consciously ignore the rules of perspective...
...invention was dangerous and impractical. A year later, the Soviet press asserted, the plate was produced by a vulture named Brown, in Sheffield, England. The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs on to the wedge breechblock and the wool-combing machine...
...penetrating soprano voice of Nannette Guilford, delivered the National Anthem. Margaret Anglin, tragedienne, gave a dramatic reading. Frederick A. Wallis, Commissioner of Correction, made a speech on "spiritual tendencies." A battery of "seventy-fives" roared a salute of thirteen guns. One of the gunners caught his hand in a breechblock. A physician had to be called...
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