Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light assault rifle employed by the United States in Vietnam which uses smaller calibre ammunition fired at greater velocity than older rifles. The higher velocity of ammunition fired by the M-16 results in a significantly higher transfer of energy to human tissue on impact. Since the jacket covering the M-16 ammunition is extremely thin, it will "tumble," or break up, on body impact. The bullet creates a temporary cavity from which it slings tissues radially at high velocity, creating a strong shock wave in surrounding tissue with the result that distant blood vessels, nerves and bones...
...take their order. "Good, onion pizza, please, sit down." The women, seated at the table, chat away, about Dick and Robert and Jordan Marsh. One is tall and black, with an expansive Afro hairdo. Her companion is white, with long black hair that sags onto her short leather jacket. They are oblivious to the group that has just walked in the door, to the conversation at the next table, to Frank's acrobatics behind the counter. In a few minutes they have their pizza in hand, wrapped to go, and they walk out into the cool night air, not once...
...fish, potato salad and home-baked beans. They also bring a flatbed truck to serve as a stage for Joe Tomaszewski's six-piece Polish Show Band. "I don't hunt or fish-I just party," says Bernie Brodkorb. He is wearing a purple vinyl Vikings jacket and a little feathered purple felt hat. "Thank God I like the color purple," says Lois, whose loyalty extends down to her purple fingernails, matching purple velveteen pants and purple satin vest...
Unfortunately, the entire Symphony is not up to the level of its beginning. The third movement, though, has what is usually labeled "rustic charm". It is where, in a phrase from the jacket notes too good to ignore, "the tone of the oboe is somewhat hazardously exploited." The ending, suitably grand, is not particularly remarkable. The performance by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has the proper romantic sheen to the string sections and the crisp, booming quality of English winds--a legacy of the military bands that still play in parks on Saturdays, Sundays. and Bank Holidays...
...audience (an estimated 48 million), the show began with a male-female duet of Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better. That was followed by the omnipresent Howard Cosell in his own flashy tuxedo-which seemed rather like a smoking jacket on a whooping crane. The experts on hand were Gene Scott and Rosemary Casals; both worked hard to demonstrate their sexist bias. Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate...