Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propelled artillery) are in the town and on the hills on two sides of us. They have accurately "zeroed" the only road which the troop can take, and , which it is now holding. That is, the sergeant morosely explains, the Huns' artillery can fan a fly's tail in mid-flight if it is so foolish as to venture up the road. Now and then a burst of gunfire, flatter and nearer than the noise of the S.P.s signals a sally of German heavy tanks from Sauzette. They sneak out, fire a few rounds at our lighter armored...
...standard Sikorsky helicopter has a rotor on top, for lifting, and another in the tail, for steering and to counteract the twisting effect given the ship by the top rotor. Hiller decided that the tail rotor was all wrong: it added unnecessary weight, wasted power, set up turbulence around the ship. His solution: two rotors on top, mounted on the same shaft but rotating in opposite directions...
...plane's belly hit the ground. . . . Then it flopped tail over nose, onto its back. The pilot was absolutely sealed into the upside-down cockpit...
...Army had long known that when it reached full strength it would have more tail than teeth. Thousands of good soldiers would have to be tied up in noncombat duties, building the greatest supply system in history, training millions for battle...
...only departures from the conventional among early U.S. battle paintings were those made by American Indians, depicting frontier skirmishes. One, painted by Sitting Bull, was a crude impression of a fierce struggle in which a white man in top hat and tail coat was spitted by an arrow, shed buckets of blood...