Word: scorpion
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...Lake, Calif., Northrop Aircraft's new fighter seemed for a moment to explode in the air. From the big pods at the wing tips, great puffs of smoke and flame shot out. The explosions were the blasts from showers of rockets shot from the pods. They gave the "Scorpion," said the Air Force, the heaviest firepower of any U.S. fighter. Although the big, heavy Scorpion is full of radar equipment, it can climb higher than 40,000 ft. Its radar eyes can search out an enemy plane in night or thick weather, "lock" the Scorpion on a collision course...
...self-appointed guardian of the church's orthodoxy. From Bethlehem he thundered against the hairsplitting heresies of the time with the mordancy of a theological Leo Durocher. When Jerome's onetime friend Rufinus died, after a long theological quarrel with him, the saint wrote: "Now that the scorpion lies buried . . . and the hydra with its numerous heads has ceased its hissing against us, and time is given for other things than answering the iniquities of heretics . . . I will tackle the Prophet Ezekiel...
...famed Rio Carnival was the worst. Rio's festival record: 22 dead and 4,612 injured-including 196 hit by cars, 330 tumbled off trams, 53 bitten (13 by other people, 33 by dogs, three by cats, two by rats, one by a monkey, one by a scorpion...
...ready to attack until 1953, concentrated on getting the plane manufacturers to expand their plants and get ready for a big jump in production if needed in two years. For example, Northrop Aircraft, loaded with a $300 million backlog chiefly to produce the Air Force's Scorpion F89 all-weather interceptor, had rearranged its plant "to create more efficient flow lines," had thus channeled men and materials away from current production. In Santa Monica, Douglas Aircraft plucked skilled supervisors from its assembly lines, shipped them and a batch of machine tools to Tulsa as the nucleus...
...snapped into a tangled mess. He invoked Almighty God, motherhood and the American flag. He accused the FBI of "impairing" defense witnesses. He pronounced the Government's star witness, Whittaker Chambers, a "traitor, thief, liar, perjurer, enemy of his country and a hypocrite," likened him to a coiled scorpion and a germ in a bottle of milk...