Word: clips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silhouette Centurion tank. Said Ike, after watching the 50-tonner churning through the mud: "The Centurion looks like a good piece of mechanism. I hope we don't have to use it." Next day, with a French motorcycle escort, Eisenhower drove at a 50-mile-an-hour clip to Coblenz. The French, who do not forget that they are the conquerors, had cleared a 60-mile stretch of road of all traffic; even an ambulance and a funeral waited while Ike passed. In the crowd at Coblenz a German youth jostled a French cavalry colonel. The officer pushed...
...Begin. For 23 years, Headmaster Wendell has led The Hill at a lively clip. To the school's solid classical curriculum he has added streamlined methods and equipment, from remedial reading classes to wire recorders for language teaching. He insists that each boy learn how to work with his hands, has put up a Hobby Building with tools for every craft. He has expanded the library, built a collection of art reproductions, slides and movies for courses in history and literature...
...lightweight, .30-cal. T25 rifle is a "new tool" which certainly merits the Army's pride [TIME, Feb. 26]. I trust the Army is saving a few buttons to burst when it finds the supermen to fire the T25 at 750 rounds a minute using a 20-round clip...
...first six months of the Korean war, the Government was ordering military goods at the rate of about $1.8 billion a month. Since then, ordering has been stepped up. Said the Office of Defense Mobilization last week: military orders are now running at a clip of about $5 billion a month...
Rifle: the lightweight, .30-cal. T25 with a tremendous (750 rounds-a-minute) rate of fire. Two and a half pounds lighter than the standard infantryman's Garand, the T25 uses a 20-round clip, can be fired automatically or singleshot. Its purpose: to replace not only the carbine and rifle, but also the submachine gun and possibly, when it gets a better barrel, the reliable but heavy (19 lbs.) Browning automatic rifle as well...