Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHILLELAGH is a stubby little (about 50 Ibs.; 43 in.) missile launched from an armored vehicle-usually a tank. Its microbeam-guidance system is so accurate that Shillelagh can destroy a tank, pillbox or troop concentration several miles away. Giving Shillelagh an added knockdown punch is its launching platform, the new General Sheridan tanklike armored vehicle. This is a speedy battlefield bantamweight (it weighs only 16 tons, compared with 50 tons for most U.S. tanks) that scoots along at 39 m.p.h. on the ground; when necessary it can dive into water and "swim" at 4 m.p.h. More important: the Sheridan...
...call the shots," says Cohen, "but when we have the time, we each contribute our one-quarter." Argument over interpretation occasionally reaches an impasse, but the quartet solves such problems by playing a piece differently from night to night until all agree on one idea. "It's a knockdown, drag-out battle sometimes," Hillyer says, but they always resolve their differences...
...holed spinnaker, the Venturi. The sail has a series of horizontal slots across its top half. The breeze flowing through the slots shoots downward, thus by counteraction pushing the sail itself upward and providing extra lift. According to Designer George Ratsey, the slots also operate to reduce the "knockdown" or heeling effect on close reaches. Price: 25% higher than conventional spinnakers...
...Dark Is Light Enough. Other notable stories include Backwards, a knockdown farce that deflates the modern millionaire's cringing devotion to liberal cliches; Josse, a tale of venomous and elderly siblings caught in a snarling web of dependence; and The Boy Martin, in which a corrupt young whippersnapper discovers that his elders are even snappier and far more corrupt...