Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Lieut. Colonel Henry Miller, chief of Army heavy maintenance in Saigon. Many Marines in the battle above Khe Sanh had been issued their M-16s only a few days before the fight, and were probably unfamiliar with the weapon's demands: constant lubrication, thorough wire-brush reaming of the barrel to prevent leading, "fire discipline" that limits bursts to two or three rounds at a crack...
Transatlantic? By 1963, British engineers had solved the clearance problem by equipping hovercraft with rubberized canvas skirts several feet long. Although the skirts were strong enough to contain the pressurized air-enabling hovercraft to rise several feet above the ground-they were flexible enough to brush over solid obstacles and high waves. The development of skirts converted the hovercraft from an experimental device into a practical means of transportation. The British Hovercraft Corp. has already built and sold seven-ton, 18-passenger hovercraft and nine-ton, 38-passenger models like those in operation at Expo 67. Both have...
...brush into jungle salad. Brown "popped smoke"-yellow signal grenades-to bring in the choppers, and while hovering Huey gunships laced the weeds with rockets and .50-cal. bullets, Team Two made its getaway, mission accomplished...
...that is about as tradey as Johnny ever lets himself get. None of the competition can match Carson's audience empathy. He never comes on too worldly or too show biz, shuns its phony language and, whenever possible, the greeting kisses from celebrities who brush cheeks and smack air. In sum, he plays the audience's ambassador to his own show. The idea is not to be too thick with the celebrities or too awed by them. His job is to set them up, to put them on gently, and to raise the questions that his viewers might...
...married to a high school principal, never discussed what he was doing during the eleven hours and more a day that he spent in his studio. One of the few painters who gained admission to his inner sanctum reported with awe, "There isn't a goddam brush in the place." Nonetheless, under his painting name of Morris Louis, Bernstein gained a reputation in Manhattan art circles. Since his death from lung cancer in 1962 at the age of 49, his repute has grown to major proportions...