Word: recoiled
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...Papa Edward Marvin Head, 26, passed around the cigars, strode proudly out to pitch for the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers. It was his first game in two years, and his arm was a bit sore (he was hurt by the recoil of an antitank gun last summer...
This, it seems to me, is due directly to the failure of our educators and clergy, who should now cease to recoil from established facts in pious horror, and should now, late as it is, attempt to factor out, explain, and teach fundamental causations...
...moralist I, but I shiver at the apparent absence of basic human decency displayed by so many G.I.s. Many a sane American family would recoil in horror if they knew how "Our Boys" conduct themselves, with such complete callousness in human relationships, over here. The few of us who try to behave like normal human beings to friend and ex-foe alike are told time & again, "But you can't be an American-they treat us as if we were dogs or slaves...
...cannon (which ordinarily weighs 3,000 lbs.), and aimed it as casually as a shotgun. He fired a 2¼-lb. projectile (more than 2 in. in diameter) which demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away. The weight of this cannon: 45 Ibs. There was not enough recoil "to move the skin on my shoulder...
...simplicity. In contrast to the conventional reciprocating engine, the Bell P-59 motor has only four basic parts: 1) compressor, 2) combustion chamber, 3) turbine, 4) the cone-shaped jet through which the expanding gases that drive the plane are expelled. Because its operation, like a gun's recoil, is based on Newton's third law of motion (every action has an equal and opposite reaction), engineers prefer to call it the "reaction engine...