Word: reloading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Student spectators were just leaving the Union fire at 1:30 p.m. as James A. Sanderson, driving his empty bus back to the Square to reload, his a patch of ice in front of Plympton St. Sanderson was only traveling at five miles per hour, but, he later recalled, "I just touched the brake...
...vehicle. Bristling with six recoilless 106-mm. rifles, the 8.5-ton Ontos relies on hit-and-run tactics rather than heavy armor for survival, uses .50-cal. machine guns to sight in on a target with tracer bullets, then fires off its heavy battery and runs for cover to reload...
...whipped out German automatic pistols. The woman opened fire first, walking down the aisle to the front of the gallery, holding her pistol with both hands. "Puerto Rico is not free!" she screamed. The men opened fire a moment later, spraying bullets all over the chamber, pausing only to reload...
...combat-dazed South Koreans, shuffling back to the rear, saw the halftrack, they ignored it, thinking it was in friendly hands. The Chinese in the vehicle pressed the firing button and held it down. Luckily for the ROKs who survived, the Chinese apparently did not know how to reload, and when the .50s stopped firing they jumped out and disappeared...
...Ceylon, and made a 23,000-mile trail-blazing flight to Tokyo and back. In a few weeks BOAC plans to start regular service to Singapore, add a Tokyo run early next year. The speedy Comet cruises at 480 m.p.h., but eats so much fuel it stops frequently to reload. Even so, it flies a 6,724-mile course to Johannesburg, with five stops, in about 24 hours. It has proved so popular that it carries capacity loads each trip, has so many customers clamoring to fly that it now takes a month to get on the Johannesburg waiting list...