Word: halftracks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tanks, trucks and armored personnel carriers ground into the rugged western reaches of Quang Tri province, raising towering columns of dust. Overhead, gunships darted around in search of enemy troops. Giant Chinook helicopters flapped into long-abandoned bases, depositing men and massive earth-moving machines. At Lang Vei, a halftrack pulled up loaded with expectant-looking G.I.s. One soldier had a single word painted on his helmet: "Laos...
...totally redesigned version of the U.S.-built M48 Patton tank, which now mounts a British 105-mm. cannon, is driven by a diesel instead of a gasoline engine, and may be the equal of Egypt's Soviet-supplied T-55s. > A 90-mm. antitank gun, mounted on a halftrack chassis and capable of traversing from side to side, which considerably increases desert firepower. > Most impressive of all, the ship-based Gabriel missile, a flat-trajectory supersonic weapon against which no defense is reported to have been built...
WHICH makes me wish that Sheep could have been done as a cartoon. There are enough familiar two-dimensional characters. The long-neglected ambassador is General Halftrack; the pacification program man is Dudley Do-Right; the wife is Debbie Reynolds in her new TV comedy show ("Oh, Mr. Mayflower, my husband didn't make you out to be a horse's ass."); the ambassador's daughter who organizes the students at Nonomura and goes to Radcliffe has a lisp and is straight out of The Impossible Years. And it is rumored that Art Buchwald doesn't really exist-that...
...Israeli helicopters lifted off their pads near Jericho and Sodom and raced eastward deep into neighboring Jordan. As soon as they had landed their in fantrymen in blocking positions, the main Israeli invasion force began to roll. North of the Dead Sea, Centurion tanks laden with helmeted paratroopers and halftrack personnel carriers trun dling infantrymen rumbled across the Allenby and Damiya bridges onto Jordan's East Bank. A second task force punched across the border south of the Dead Sea. Israeli artillery laid down a barrage that walked just ahead of the advancing columns, and delta-wing jets blazoned...
Taxi for Tobruk is a modest French-made drama that effectively understates the points that None But the Brave garbles at the top of its Voice. The setting is North Africa, 1942. Shelled out of their halftrack vehicle, four French soldiers flee across the desert. Next day they slip up to a German patrol car and slaughter four men camped on the sand near by. The fifth, an arrogant young Afrika Korps captain (Hardy Kruger), becomes their prisoner...