Crossword clues for minuteman
minuteman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minuteman \Min"ute*man\, n.; pl. Minutemen. A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
U.S. history, one of a class of militia available for immediate service (i.e. "ready in a matter of minutes"), 1774. As the name of a type of ICBM, from 1961, so called because they could be launched with very little preparation.
Wiktionary
n. During the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20War%20for%20Independence, a soldier who would fight for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot%20(American%20Revolution) at a minute's notice
Usage examples of "minuteman".
We have twelve Pluto-class atomic-powered cruise missiles pointed at that thing, day and night, as many megatons as the entire Minuteman force.
Schriever, a former chief of the Air Force Systems Command, who developed the Titan, Thor, Atlas and Minuteman rockets.
It was built to exactly the same set of specifications used for the control capsules of Minuteman silos - easy enough, since Maclntyre had constructed most of those.
In class Major Staley lectured on the firststrike survival capability of our nuclear arsenal, ranging from the landbased Minuteman and Titan missile silos to the nuclearpowered Polaris submarine missilelaunching fleet to the more than five hundred combatready bombers of the Strategic Air Command.
Selected population centers within COMRUS borders are hit by Minuteman 3 ICBMs carrying MIRV warheads.
Additionally, both the Minuteman III and the Sego will require considerable modification for this mission.
He walked away from the window and sat down in his leather chair at his desk, the desktop adorned with memorabilia of a long Air Force career: F-104 fighter, F-4 Phantom, a Minuteman missile, a B-52 bomber.
The Minuteman missiles were solid-fuelled, awaiting only the electronic match to light them.
I cruised down through Lexington Center past the Minuteman and looped back in a wide circle to Emerson Road.
Americans, Azeez thought, a few Minuteman missiles and they thought they owned your soul.
What did surprise him was that he had trailed Gary Scholes all the way from the Christian Minutemen meeting to this one.
This is what the hysterical Birchites, the Minutemen, say in your own country.
In class Major Staley lectured on the firststrike survival capability of our nuclear arsenal, ranging from the landbased Minuteman and Titan missile silos to the nuclearpowered Polaris submarine missilelaunching fleet to the more than five hundred combatready bombers of the Strategic Air Command.
An AMNAT Minuteman can hold an absolute maximum of eight MIRVs irregardless of whether the titanic jockstrap little LaMont Chu promoted out of the sedated Teddy Schacht's gear bag on the bus Friday night can hold thirteen dead tennis balls.
I opened the newspaper first, found it to be The White Christian Minuteman, a scabrous, illiterate, anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic hate sheet published by the Reverend Doctor Lionel J.