Word: deflecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reprieve last week. The Communists' best opportunity to kill the new Cabinet seemed to be the scheduled dissolution of the Italian Constituent Assembly this month, which would have been followed by general elections in the fall. The Communists were sure they could lick De Gasperi, or at least deflect his energies from the desperate business of government. But last week the Assembly decided to junk the schedule and to postpone general elections for at least six months. This gave De Gasperi a vital chance to show Italians that he could run and rebuild their country without benefit of Communist...
Rocketing Along. While the rocket is still moving slowly, its vertical flight is controlled by vanes of graphite which deflect the blast of gas. Later, as it gains speed, these are supplemented by four sets of vanes on the fins. These obey orders from gyroscope devices. They are pre-set on the ground; after the rocket has taken off, it cannot be deflected to a new course, or its aim corrected. All its nursemaids can do is cut off the power by radio. Last week they let it blast away for 59.4 seconds. Super-Vergeltungswaflen of the future, Army experts...
Game of Darts. UNO had shown the Russians that the Security Council could not be used for petty tactical maneuvers. It had not, of course, really reconciled the basic forces in conflict between Great Britain and Russia; the forces were irreconcilable. It was UNO's job to deflect and cushion such forces, prevent them from colliding and exploding into World War III. The London meeting made it plain that the nations, pressed from below by war-sick peoples, had accepted UNO as the place of settlement-at least for the present...
...product: an aluminum canoe. Designed by President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks in the bow and stern. Grumman is now turning out the first order for 1,000 canoes, has orders in the offing for another 5,000. The price: slightly...
...according to Hale, K-8 is the first to compensate for all the factors that deflect a bullet in air combat...