Word: breeches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American pilots and Chinese co-pilots fly mostly at night (bad weather preferred), blacked out, radios dead, very high, navigating by stars, by instruments, or by Oriental divining. They have carried over 2,000 passengers a year, over 1,000,000 Lb. of mail and cargo- ranging from new breech blocks for Chung-king's anti-aircraft guns to jars of American grape jelly for Madame Chiang Kaishek's table...
...come from Inventor Johnson himself and from the boss of his barrel shop, an acidulous, gun-goofy Swede named Carl Ekdahl. By their joint ingenuity Johnson, Ekdahl, Ruhl & Co. had by last week piled up 5,300 finished barrels, 11,000 more barrels in process, 10,000 breech bolts, hundreds and thousands of other parts, before a gun was assembled...
Cheyenne Indians, in complete tribal regalia, picketed the U.S. post office at Watonga, Okla. Inside was a mural by Edith Mahier of the University of Oklahoma, depicting their ancestors under the reign of Chief Roman Nose. Explained 71-year-old Chief Red Bird: "Picture not like Roman Nose. Breech clout too short, look like Navajo. Roman Nose's baby look like stumpy pig. No good. It stinks...
...Hollywood to date. But paint is no substitute for dramatic action. Out of the tiresome rhetoric, the pretty posturing of Blood and Sand only the bullfight scenes stand out. One of them is magnificent: a little Mexican boy named Jesús Angel, clad in a breech clout, armed solely with a white horse blanket, hazing a big black bull around a practice plaza de toros in the moonlight...
...Ordnance inefficiencies? Hell, yes," says Mr. Glancy, "but it's a marvel to me how they held together at all under that kind of expansion. For 20 years Ordnance officers have been begging this manufacturer to develop a sight, that manufacturer to redesign a breech block, another for a recoil mechanism, with never enough money to back it up, and now all of a sudden ordnance is expected to have mass production. It just isn't in the wood...