Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the spongelike material fills the tank, it soaks up the fuel and capaci ty is not significantly reduced. The or ange polyurethane, by containing the fuel and its vapor, reduces the possibility of explosion or fire when the tank is hit by a bullet or ruptures during a crash. At the Air Force demonstration, a bullet fired into a fuel-and-foam-filled tank produced only a slight glow as fuel vapor escaping from the pressurized tank ignited outside. Foam has been successfully used for nine months in the tanks of HH-3E helicopters and other aircraft operating...
...week the people of South Viet Nam chose a President, Nguyen Van Thieu, a Vice President, Nguyen Cao Ky, and 60 Senators in a free election that confounded the fledgling nation's friendly critics and its mortal enemies. In the U.S. and Viet Nam, by word and by bullet, it was an election conducted under fire...
Wattsians are trying to achieve by peaceful, productive means the sense of racial pride and accomplishment that Black Power advocates hope to instill with bomb and bullet...
...rifle bullet creased Naty's scalp. Moments later, his radio went dead again; blood from his wound had short-circuited his chest microphone. Naty led the final phase of the attack standing high in his turret and directing his tanks with hand signals. By the time he reached the center of Kallah, only three Shermans were still operating...
...sniper's bullet, the machine-gun burst in the night, a bus full of farmers dynamited, the satchel of plastique, the grenade tossed into a crowd?all are surgically planned by the Viet Cong to specific ends. In the countryside, terrorism often aims to stamp out the peasants' sense of security, always tenuous at best. A few guerrillas firing a dozen shots near a lightly defended government village pose an agonizing problem for the local commander. If he calls for reinforcements, it is almost certain that no enemy will be found. If he does not, the villagers may begin...