Word: turretful
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Except for the turret and pilot house, the Monitor lay almost completely under water, presenting a very small target to enemy guns. Just 18 in. of the raft showed above the waterline...
...most revolutionary feature of the Monitor's design was the revolving turret, which could fire on a target regardless of the position of the ship...
Sept. 11 brought on one of NATO's historic hours - the first case of mutual defense ever declared in the alliance's 52-year existence - yet not a turret turned on a single tank. In the two months since then, NATO has provided more political than military cover for the U.S.-led war on terrorism...
...special-operations man glanced up at the cloud and shouted, "Incoming shrapnel--get down!" As the dust cloud cleared, a U-shaped hole the size of a small swimming pool appeared in the wall next to the northeast tower. The tank had flipped onto its back, its gun turret blown off. Alliance soldiers, bleeding, coated in dust, began sliding down the side of the fort and staggering across the surrounding cotton fields. "It missed," said a soldier named Afiz, blood dripping from his eyes and ears. "I don't know where my friends are." From under the fort's entrance...
...Dukakis posed in that ridiculous tankman's hat, sitting in the turret like Snoopy. The other day while watching George W. Bush accepting his honorary degree at Yale, I sensed a Dukakis moment. I understand that the overall effect of the speech, if you were there in New Haven, was not as embarrassing as the soundbites. I saw only the television clips, and they were painful - the towel-snapper's smirk, the jokes about how if you are a C student you may get to be president, and if you drop out (as Dick Cheney...