Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country was solidly held by the enemy. Baum's force crashed through Aschaffenburg. German rocket and small-arms fire riddled them. They lost men and vehicles. They hit Gemünden, where a whole German division had just unloaded. They destroyed 50 cars in the railroad yards and "barreled through...
...from America . . . Considerably less ordered and arranged was Congress' experience with one of its fraternal foreign delegates, the A.F. of L.'s burly George Meany. A tough-talking ex-plumber from New York. Meany carried a verbal rocket in his pocket, lost no time firing it. His target: Soviet Russia, whose fellow fraternal delegate, Michael P. Tarasov, sat an arm's length away...
With much whizzing and sound effects, the Colonel was shot up in a rocket ship to a star, looked down at the earth through a telescope and was startled to see the battle of Waterloo just going on. (Said Fadiman: "It took the light rays from Napoleon's battle almost 200 light years to travel from the earth. . . . Things can't be observed to happen simultaneously in space. . . .") Then Stoopnagle was brought back to earth, put aboard a ship, where he observed that he was moving. (Fadiman: "Everything in the universe is moving all the time. The motion...
...stage where a country could win a war despite its size. It could win, however small it was, provided it had the scientific resources and brains to obtain mastery of the new weapons. If you couple the atomic bomb with the projected missile [e.g., buzz-bombs or rocket bombs], you have something with possibilities that hardly bear contemplation...
...piloted rocket missile, with a 3,000-mile range, which its designer said could cross the Atlantic with passengers in 17 minutes...