Word: ricochet
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...headquarters bivouac and on the trails through the jungle, war between Private Red Valsen and Sergeant Sam Croft-war without dignity and without purpose, war for position or prestige, war to save face, or to satisfy an inward sense of superiority, or war that is merely the psychological ricochet of the greater conflict off stage...
...swarthy, Canadian Rhodes Scholar, Gelber is a professional diplomat as well as an ex-professor. After teaching international relations at the University of Toronto, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943, and worked in what he call "ricochet political warfare," before taking his present...
...there are no rivets, which a direct hit may drive into the interior of a tank, where they ricochet, as deadly as bullets...
Deep-seated cancers can sometimes be treated by Xray, but the treatment sometimes proves dangerous, because the X-ray may injure normal tissue. Doctors have tried to find an X-ray substitute which would hit only the diseased target and not ricochet. Last week Dr. John Meredith Kenney of Manhattan's famed Memorial...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Warner Bros.) is 606, the arsenical compound that the dumpy, cigar-puffing Jewish genius found he could shoot into syphilitics and kill the pale spirochetes of syphilis without killing their victim. Warner Brothers have long been afraid that the bullet might ricochet from the Hays Office, the State censorship boards, the U. S. cinemillions conditioned to regard any mention of syphilis as indecent. Consulted in advance, after a fortnight's solemn thought the Hays experts spoke. Their verdict: the word syphilis must be mentioned as seldom as possible in the picture; on no account...