Word: turretful
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...Bogside below, a huge combat bulldozer, its 76-mm. cannon shrouded in canvas and its turret turned backward (to avoid photographs reminiscent of the Soviet invasion of Prague), headed for its assigned target. It rammed through a barricade of cement blocks, twisted pipe and the hulk of a burned-out bus. Then, at the crossroads known as "Free Derry Corner," it halted-blocked by the Bogside's most formidable barrier, a truck chassis embedded in solid concrete. The bulldozer poked at it, broke the great blade that projected from its snout, and finally backed off and rumbled away...
Sergeant Bill Tillman fired a brand-new wire-guided missile which corrected its direction in mid-air and blew the turret off an oncoming tank. As the sun rose, 22 North Vietnamese tanks were left burning on the plain. Although the marines had some bad moments and had to give a little ground, they did so in good order and finally held firm; the North Vietnamese tanks had not proved to be all that formidable...
...call out 'Dragon, Dragon!'-a word that he cannot stand to hear." As Hans and his animal followers thus taunt Dra-Dra, the monster becomes so enraged that he soars into the clouds and dives onto his own castle, impaling himself on a turret. Dra-Dra's followers gather at a feast in an attempt to perpetuate the old order. Too late, they realize that the banquet is being held in the anus of the deceased dragon. "Must we die?" asks one. "You have already been dead a long time," Hans replies Then he instructs the animals...
...force from 12,000 to 20,000 people. Eventually the output is to be doubled. Other factories meanwhile have begun turning out Israeli tanks. So far, the most successful of these has been a hybrid that can operate in both desert and mountains. It mates the low silhouette and turret design of the Russian T-54 (Israel captured nearly 400 of them in the Six-Day War) with the periscope, stabilizers and range finders of the British Centurion and the transmission and engine of the U.S. Patton tank. Another Israeli tank is part Patton and part Centurion. Some Israelis jokingly...
...waiting for an air strike. With him was a grimy U.S. Marine sergeant. Amid the noise of small arms and mortar rounds, the Marine muttered, "We sure are shooting the living hell out of them." Outside, a Marine tank grinding through the rubble took a B40 rocket in the turret and pulled back. The crew climbed out, wounded, and were immediately replaced by others; the new men did not even bother to wipe the blood from the inside of the tank. The house Greenway took shelter in is empty now, and a woman nearby shrieks at a visitor: "All dead...