Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ears of football players only. "Billick" Whelchel broke a big piece of news: it was his last game with the Redskins. He shook hands all around, then made his speech: "Now go out there and win that game for me." The Redskins did in a shifting, fast-moving finale that included passes by the aging master, 35-year-old Slingin' Sammy Baugh, and Understudy Harry Gilmer, a skittering, 74-yd. run down the sideline by Pete Stout. After coming from behind to win, 27-14, the Redskins carried Coach Whelchel off the field on their shoulders...
...much to be feared as any weapon in the arsenal, says Dr. Bush, is the submarine, now able to stay submerged for long periods "with only a small end of a pipe [the schnorkel] sticking out like a swimmer breathing through a straw," able to outrun pursuers and overtake fast convoys, and carrying long-range homing torpedoes which could be fired from a point beyond the earshot of sonar. The Nazis had been a few months too late with their undersea engine of destruction. But there it is now, says Bush, a heritage of German ingenuity: "one of our greatest...
Bush visualizes nests of robot weapons guarding strategic centers. Ramjet missiles would be loosed against the highest-flying, swiftest planes, which "could neither see them nor dodge them; they come too fast." The missiles carry proximity fuzes which, during the war, "multiplied the effectiveness of large antiaircraft batteries by five or ten." The fuze, which commands the scientist's awe as "a devilish device," may yet, he thinks, "bring a feeling of relative security to the world...
...Fantastic Cost. What would War III be like? Bush finds no ready answer. It would not be as easy as some optimists like to think, nor as dire as others predict. "For a long time to come," at least, there would not be fleets of fast and high-flying intercontinental bombers. The atom bomb would be dropped, but it is not the abso lute weapon it has been said to be. It is not even as devastating as popularly supposed, says Bush. The costs of manufacturing and of delivering it would be so vast that they might well exhaust...
Last September, Glickman came across the record in his files. Says Lange: "It sounded like something I had never heard before. I was floored. But I knew that right there we had a hot hit." With its fast clippity-clop rhythm (actually a good deal faster than a burro's), it sounded like a poor man's Riders in the Sky. And with the U.S. hungry for what the trade calls "oat" or "popcorn" songs, Lange was right about the hot hit. After Vaughn Monroe, Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, et. al. had taken a ride on it, Mule...