Word: recoiling
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...inefficiencies? Hell, yes," says Mr. Glancy, "but it's a marvel to me how they held together at all under that kind of expansion. For 20 years Ordnance officers have been begging this manufacturer to develop a sight, that manufacturer to redesign a breech block, another for a recoil mechanism, with never enough money to back it up, and now all of a sudden ordnance is expected to have mass production. It just isn't in the wood...
...were dug in. Steadily the little flotilla moved closer, bringing smaller guns into action. Within two hours the main line of the battle fleet had moved into position and started pumping shells in a whistling stream into the shore batteries. For hours they kept it up. Bucking from the recoil of their guns, the advance units moved into the harbor...
...items are incorrect: 1) twisted posture, from jutting neck to probable poor foot position; 2) thumb is bent downward, grasping the pistol butt instead of being straight alongside the receiver - and acting as a brace; 3) wrist is not straight; 4) entire arm is crooked, which will cause the recoil to be directed off his body at an angle; 5) left arm is tensely drawn across his body, instead of being in one of the three approved positions - at side, bent with palm flat on hip, or hand relaxed in pocket...
When his heart contracts it throws a load of blood forward toward his head. "For the same reason that a discharged gun kicks one in the shoulder," said Dr. Starr, "the recoil throws the body feet-ward." An instant later, when the blood strikes the aortic arch (curve in large heart artery), "[the blood's] headward movement is arrested, creating an impact which throws the body and the table headward...
...with the thrill of victory came a chill realization that it was not the same country. It was not even quite the same New England. The slave power was gone, but the bankers remained. Most of the young men were dead or gone West. The New England mind recoiled from the consequences of victory with the same instinctive consternation that made Henry Adams recoil from U. S. Grant. Wrote Henry Adams, describing his and his father's return after a decade in England: "Had they been Tyrian traders of the year B.C. 1,000, landing from a galley fresh...