Word: deflecting
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...time through clouds, a gremlin may whisper into the pilot's ear: "You fathead, you're flying upside down!" The pilot then hurriedly turns over and flies upside down while the gremlin laughs and laughs, silently. Another favorite gremlin trick is to climb into gun barrels and deflect bullets. (But usually this is done by widgets.) Sometimes a gremlin puts his finger over a carburetor jet and makes the motor sound for a moment as if it were conking...
Five goals in nine minutes of the last period by the Yale Freshmen pulled them up from a 6-3 deflect, and they stalled for the rest of the game to overcome the fighting Yardlings. Nat Brackett and Brad Harris scored twice each for the losers, while Al Cook and Captain, Herb Allen came through once each...
...allows a goodly weight saving by eliminating angle-pieces and overlapping necessary for riveting plates together. Unlike welded armor, cast armor has no seams of uncertain toughness. And, unlike both riveted and all-welded armor, cast armor can have rounded corners to deflect glancing shells...
...equipment slid into the sea, ready to go as soon as they hit water. These barges varied in type. Some were twin-keeled open boats, carrying no to 120 armed men. The barges had bow flaps which became runways for light artillery and tanks, with V-shaped hulls to deflect enemy fire. One type of barge had an airplane propeller instead of a water-screw, so that it could operate in as little as two feet of water...
...time for a new war, the best heavy tank in the world was unveiled at Eddystone, near Philadelphia, this week. A joint product of Baldwin Locomotive Works and U.S. Army Ordnance, it weighs 57 tons, is heavily armored with welded and cast plate. Its contours are rounded to deflect hits, and even its traction gear is protected by steel. Its turrets are power driven, its silhouette cut down. It totes a three-inch double-purpose anti-tank & aircraft gun, powerful enough to stop any tank in existence, is equipped with a secret device, which gives its gunners 500% more accuracy...