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...front end; the cavity is lined with a cone of thin metal. When the charge explodes, the wave of detonation starts at the rear of the shell; when the explosive waves hit the point of the metal liner, the metal comes under immense pressure and acts like a thin fluid. Like a jet-propelled stream of toothpaste, the fluid metal spurts forward, at speeds up to 30,000 feet a second. The jet of liquid metal and gas can pierce more than eleven inches of armor plate. Shaped-charge shells are also equipped with rocket-like fins to give...
...Fluid" was getting to be one of the most hateful words of the Korean war. Whenever the thin U.S. forces found their lines breached and themselves forced to fall back, a headquarters spokesman, either in the battle zone or in Tokyo, was almost sure to tell correspondents that the situation was "fluid...
...talked with Lieut. Colonel W. H. Sterling Wright, a youngish, handsome cavalryman who, as chief of staff, was now KMAG's acting commander. Wright quickly explained the situation. "Fluid but hopeful" was the way he summed it up. Korean officers who entered the room were more pessimistic. Tall, round-faced Colonel Kim Pak II, ex-Japanese army captain, now generally accredited the Korean army's smartest staffman, shook hands with me warmly, but his usual cheerful manner had given way to worried tenseness. "Not very good . . . not very good...
Georges Braque, 68, collects and polishes old bones to embody in the ceramics he is making nowadays. Braque and Picasso were once Montmartre pals, painted almost indistinguishable cubist pictures. After the two parted, Braque stuck with cubism, gradually developed it into the tricky, fluid and elaborate medium of expression he employs today. In his spotless Paris studio, Craftsman Braque works at his complex, heavily textured canvases slowly and with obvious enjoyment. "The fun," he says, "is that when you begin a picture you never know what it's going to look like. Each new work is a journey into...
Unfortunately, Dr. Rosa emphasized, puncturing through the abdomen to the bag of waters to draw off amniotic fluid is likely to be dangerous to both mother & child. In short, the test is only a scientific curiosity, and no use at all in general practice...