Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mookie, out of sight, worked efficiently. Suddenly, a rabbit bounded out of a nearby hole and fled across the heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees. Diana spotted the quarry almost instantly. When the rabbit was about 75 yards away, Falconer Wolfgang Stehle suddenly called "Habicht frei" (Hawk free) and released the thong which bound straining Diana to his. wrist. Wings pounding for quick altitude, Diana flashed after the rabbit. Closing fast, she wheeled into a vertical bank between two fir trees and plummeted downward for the strike...
...saint. Like many a Crusader, he fights simply because he loves "blood and gunpowder." Hand-to-hand scrapping is his ideal: "Everything else [in war]," he assures Guy, "is just bumf and telephones." His pursuit of his ideal has left him with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must...
...President: Soft-spoken Governor John Fine, a coal-patch boy who made good in the big city, is now the senior Republican in Pennsylvania by virtue of his control of state patronage. Pittsburgh's Mayor Dave Lawrence, a man who came up by the same hardfisted route, is recognized as the No. 1 Democrat. Although they look at the presidential race from opposite corners of the ring, their estimates of the Pennsylvania vote narrow down to essential views which are surprisingly alike...
Rough Air. But in the last few years Northwest has been hitting one patch of rough air after another. In 1950, potential passengers were not encouraged by a Northwest suit against Boeing for late delivery of ten Stratocruisers. Northwest claimed the planes had so many bugs in them that they had cost Northwest $6,000,000 to put them in flying shape (the suit was later withdrawn). Northwest had even more trouble in 1951, when its pilots refused to take Northwest's Martin 2025 aloft after five of them had crashed (TIME, April 23, 1951). The line...
Muzzle-loader fans have to be devoted. Their guns are handmade (many fans make their own), and firing them takes effort. To load a flintlock rifle, the marksman 1) measures out a charge of powder, 2) pours it down the barrel, 3) moistens a cloth patch with saliva, 4) puts a lead ball on the patch, 5) sets patch and ball in the muzzle, 6) taps the ball with a little mallet or some other appropriate tool, 7) trims away the excess cloth, 8) shoves the ball down the barrel with a short ramrod called a bullet starter, 9) works...