Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineering laboratory was assigned to test the raindrop effect. On a U.S. Navy firing range outside San Diego, Convair's engineers developed a simple but effective experiment. To approximate supersonic flight, test pellets of aircraft materials (e.g., light metals, plastics, fabrics) were fired from a standard 20-mm. cannon through a "rainstorm" produced by a 500-ft. series of sprinklers. The pellets' speed was kept constant-1,520 m.p.h.-and a parachute, timed to open after 1,500 ft., brought the projectile to earth...
Most of the city remained malarial swampland for close to a century. As recently as 1910, Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon protested against putting the Lincoln Memorial where it now stands, on the grounds that it would surely collapse of loneliness and ague-fever. Only in the past 50 years has the capital begun to live up to L'Enfant's plans...
...powers he amassed, particularly the Rules Committee chairmanship, were stripped from his successor, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, in the revolt of 1910. The speakership was whittled down almost to its purely procedural functions. Since then the Speaker's powers have been gradually increasing again, with Joe Martin's (and before him, Sam Rayburn's) subtle cloakroom tactics substituting for the brazen railroading of Czar Reed...
Pridi the Communist. Last week, with appropriate fanfare, Red China introduced Pridi as "Public Leader of Thailand." Pridi posed carefully as a genuine Thai nationalist, urging Thais never to serve as "cannon fodder for imperialism," but instead to "wage a struggle" against the U.S. "Although the forces of peace have achieved a tremendous victory in restoring peace in Indo-China," cried Pridi, "U.S. imperialists and the Thai reactionary government are still lording it . . . They are bent on using Thailand as a base for aggression...
...hypersonic tunnel is a vacuum chamber at one end and a gas-charged cannon at the other. At the beginning of each test, a strong-walled tube six feet long and three inches in diameter is charged at high pressure with an explosive mixture of hydrogen, oxygen and helium. When the gas is detonated (with a bang like a 37 mm. gun), it ruptures a copper diaphragm. A blast of hot gases preceded by a shockwave races down a long evacuated tube. Pushed by pressure behind and pulled by the vacuum ahead, it expands through two nozzles...