Word: recoiling
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...generals and the Air Staff are markedly younger than equivalent members of the ground army. This is one explanation for the rumblings still heard from younger officers that what the country needs is not autonomy for the Air Forces but a separate Air Force. Some of the older airmen recoil from the complications involved in making such a change in wartime. They still have hope that Bob Lovett will get the Air Forces autonomy in fact as well as in organization...
...week in Washington there was a rumor that the midget was going to be equipped with 75-mm. guns. Since the jeep's practical load limit is 800 lb., it could hardly tote a 75, which weighs 3,900. But it is steady as a mule under the recoil of a 37-mm. antitank gun. If, under stress, the jeep should turn over, it is a simple matter for a few soldiers to set it right side up again...
...figures in the painting are therefore purposely given horrible, almost indecent distortions so that one will recoil on seeing them. The artist thus hopes to "suggest" the chaos and shock of disaster, the destruction of mind and spirit that takes place in such a catastrophe as the air raid on Guernica and, above all, the helpless rage and hatred of the trapped victims...
Fifteen minutes dragged into a half-hour, close to an hour, as the technicians with their gauges settled themselves and made their equipment ready for the test. How would she take it? Would she heel to starboard before the recoil of her broadside? Would it rip her guts? Would the blast dash the laymen observers from the eyes of the ship into...
...Tatuta Maru was a symbol of the recoil the U.S. would have to brace itself for if President Roosevelt chose to fire his new economic weapon. The U.S. last season got only 18% of its silk from China and other minor sources, all the rest (273,711 bales) from Japan. Loss of this supply would mean i) an epidemic of bare or lisle-clad shanks, 2) abrupt dislocation of the U.S. hosiery industry (97,000 workers), 3) lesser repercussions on many another U.S. clothing manufacturer...