Word: slug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, with anti-aircraft guns less defiladed by stacks and superstructure than any of her forebears, has a mighty slug in her guns, plenty of speed to dodge while the battle is on. Her successors will go farther still. But none will go so far as the dreamboat design put out by Industrial Stylist George W. Walker of Detroit. He went all the way, streamlined his ship like an airplane, put his main battery in mushroom turrets, massed bridge and stack into a bulletlike island alongside a launching deck for aircraft. It was another vision. But no man could reasonably...
Arrau's well-tailored brown suits, his irrepressible love for jewelry are deceiving. Far from a superficial showoff, he has the elements of true greatness. Though he has a prodigious technique, he does not slug the piano; he approaches his art with sober modesty, plays with fire but no unnecessary sparks...
...request, Nelson went before the committee to slug it out. He curved his surprised eyebrows and his padded chins over the witness table, puffed mightily on his pipe, gently tapped a paper of matches on the table to emphasize his points. Said he flatly: "The Committee is hampering us. ... You make men afraid to come down here. . . . Companies that are willing to sacrifice ... to have men come down here are afraid for them to come...
Cary Grant on Hollywood: "Chivalry has no place on the streetcar marked Fame. . . . Your fellow passengers are intent on gouging out your eyes. ... If a woman gets in your way, correct Hollywood etiquette is to slug her before she slugs...
While other armies were developing new light artillery, Ordnance had been satisfied to dress up the old French 75. In 1940 Ordnance at last conceded that the 75 had too flat a trajectory, threw too light a slug. Ordnance had an able substitute in the 105-mm. howitzer, which it had planned as a supplementary weapon. When the 105-mm. finally became the standard field artillery piece, it meant a revolution in the shell-as well as artillery-production program. The Army is only now getting the first...