Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls, a silver-nicked radiator, an aluminum body, overhead values, an automatic lubrication system, two ignition systems, two carburetors, and a spare gas tank. A wheel can be changed in less than a minute. Its only failures, according to the Sharps, are "the lack of a built-in machine-gun turret and the inordinate amount of gas it consumes...
...Gun Pointing Both Ways. Senator Smith would 1) turn over to a committee of generals and admirals the $75 million appropriated to oppose Communism's spread in China, 2) lend strong support to a Free China movement, 3) never recognize the Communist government of Mao Tse-tung. But chiefly he tried to fix U.S. attention on the island of Formosa, which the Nationalist government regards as its last redoubt...
...important piece of real estate still outside Western democracy's Pacific Ocean frontier, Formosa lies on the line between three potential sea-air bastions: Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines (see map). In the hands of an Asia-based enemy it would menace U.S. communication lines. But it is a gun which can point both ways. The U.S. could point it at Communist China...
...captain of the seagoing British Empire. But to one commander in the shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a chance of honorable escape. Accompanied by three French ships of the line, Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley sheeted home his sails and set off in his flagship, the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin, for the safety of a French Atlantic port. Badly scarred by gunfire from Nelson's own ship Victory, his Duguay was limping badly as she sailed southward...
According to eyewitness reports, Zilahy had violated a range rule by not locking his safety before handling the gun. Bender said that the range was being operated correctly, and that there was no need for any action against...