Word: armageddon
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...tried vainly to find a movable home for the MX. Americans, and therefore their representatives in Congress, like to keep their deterrent out of sight and as much as possible out of mind. They do not like the idea of trucks rumbling along interstate highways with cargos bound for Armageddon. The Soviets, by contrast, in addition to having more wide-open spaces in which to shuttle their missiles about, need not worry about environmentalists, constituent-minded politicians or protesters. The only reasons they have for not "going mobile" are, first, the knowledge that doing so would very likely kill what...
...Adams. Once again the protagonist is a reluctant wanderer named Arthur Dent; once again his intergalactic guide is an extraterrestrial named Ford Prefect. Vooming around the void accompanied by a two-headed, three-armed creature who once controlled the universe and a sexy space cadet, Dent manages to avert Armageddon and save the world for life as we never knew it. Adams delights in cosmic pratfalls, and if he sometimes loses track of his narrative, he more than makes up for it by confirming what many have suspected all along: "He learned to communicate with birds and discovered that their...
...Republicans have never been able to gain more than 192 seats, and that the Republicans cannot be dislodged from the White House in 1984 because of the historical pattern of the Electoral College system. Not much is going to change that arrangement, he feels, short of economic catastrophe or Armageddon. Busby...
...Armageddon notwithstanding, undergraduate politicos immediately split into opposing camps. The majority praised Kennedy's dramatic response, while a small but vocal leftist camp portrayed "a spiral of hostility" willfully accelerated by the White House...
...sleek chairs and desks, almost electrocute each other with a computer's exposed wires. The final blow, be warned, is a vertical slice through the bad guy's cranium. One wonders how many members of the audience will stay around to watch the end of this compact Armageddon-and how many of these will leave with a splitting headache...