Word: deflects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...made his money so that he would not have to make money. He said: "Nothing must deflect the magnetic needle...
...circles: "I hate Roosevelt's guts, but I'll vote for him sooner than for Taft or Dewey." The reason for the epidemic was Adolf Hitler, who had reawakened in America the dormant sensation of patriotism. And President Roosevelt, by his aggressive rearmament policy, had begun to deflect the U. S. businessman's hatred of the New Deal toward Berlin. Young Republicans mistrusted Roosevelt, but they mistrusted the bumbling, obsolete, Chamberlainesque rituals of their Party's Old Guard even more...
...score in the second and third cantos but was unable to click more than once, finally succumbing before a fast Tiger attack at 14:05 in the third period. Ralph Wyer passed the puck to Bill MacCoy, who took a shot at the goal which Turner was able to deflect into the net from the edge of the crease...