Word: outslug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quality. Gradually, Braithwaite and his class learned mutual respect. The students' "sir"' became less forced, and the teacher's prejudices began to break down as he found a few quick, honest minds among the slum children. Progress was not smooth: Braithwaite was forced to outslug the class troublemaker, a hulking amateur boxer, and habitual bigotry cut through newly learned tolerance when the class refused to take flowers to the house of a Negro boy whose white mother had died. (Tolerance ultimately won, and the entire class showed up for the funeral...
...newly designed T-43 tanks would weigh up to 60 tons, be able to withstand the deadliest known antitank weapons. The T-43's own guns are automatically directed and controlled. Said Brigadier General David J. Crawford, boss of the Army's tank program: "They should outslug any land fighting machine ever produced." Since Chrysler already had a contract for a new 45-ton medium tank (TIME, Jan. 15), the new contract brought the corporation's total tank orders to $259 million, and total arms orders to more than $500 million. Chrysler, which, outside of the Army...