Word: recoiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bull's-Eye. A new, low-recoil, semi-automatic shotgun that stays on target at rapid fire without riding up was put on sale by New Haven's Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Secret of the shotgun's accuracy is a recoil chamber that moves less than one-tenth of an inch, thereby softening the kick up to 30%. Price...
Thousands of its long-established citizens as well as thousands of startled newcomers from the outlands recoil each year at the prospect of sending their own flesh & blood to the public schools. In some strata of the city's big professional, business and intellectual communities, a man not only loses face, but is likely to be considered downright heartless if he democratically consigns his offspring to a public school. Brigades of men & women who love the city for its theaters, shops and bridge-laced distances move to the suburbs each year because their young have reached school age. More...
...news comes out of the context of the time. Many leaders in philosophy and politics either deny 1) the existence of the moral law, or 2) its relevance to politics. They recoil from what they call the "absolutism" of any political system that claims any connection with standards beyond man's capacity to repeal. They point to the thousands of arrogant and wrong-headed politicians who claimed to be the voices...
...advertising to commercial television. They have therefore discovered all sorts of high-minded reasons for preserving in the case of the BBC a monopoly which, in any other field, they would [denounce] . . . Then there has been the unforgettable spectacle of politicians rising up ... to explain how their sensitive natures recoil from the vulgarity of commercial radio . . . It is rather as though Moll Flanders, confronted with the possibility of finding herself alone with a gentleman friend, should have fainted right away from shyness...
...years later, suspected of spying for the British, he deserted his wife and daughter and fled to London. Knighted for his service to King George III, he soon became famed as a scientific busybody. Most of his experiments in those days dealt with naval cannon (recoil and the velocity of missiles). After the Revolution, Sir Benjamin went to work for the Elector of Bavaria. In short order, he became Minister of War, Minister of Police, Major General, Chamberlain of the Court and State Councilor. In his spare time, he invented a laborsaving kitchen range and organized a workhouse for Munich...