Word: armamentarium
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...locked away. Khrushchev called it excrement and branded its creators "pederasts." Brezhnev ordered bulldozers to smash it into the ground at an outdoor exhibit. Such has been the fate of Russia's modernist art at the hands of dictators bent on enforcing their philistine tastes with the whole armamentarium of the totalitarian state. Even Mikhail Gorbachev has found that the tradition of putting down avant-garde art dies hard among cultural bureaucrats. As a result, the visual arts have been far slower than literature and music to benefit from glasnost...
...hefty $360. Despite the costs and the limitations as a treatment, health officials are enthusiastic about the new form of acyclovir. "It is a very useful tool," says Mary Guinan, an associate director at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "We welcome it as part of our armamentarium in our war against sexually transmitted diseases...
...where in one experiment it induced a trancelike state in rats. Such research in the past led to the discovery of curare, an arrow poison from the Amazon now used to paralyze muscles during surgery. Tetrodotoxin may also one day find its place in the medical armamentarium. "People who have lived in the tropics for centuries have learned things about plants and animals that we have not fathomed," says Richard Evan Schultes, head of Harvard's renowned Botanical Museum. "We must not leave any stone unturned, or their secrets will be lost...
...Herrnstein has refused my invitations to discuss and debate these issues at length on a public platform. For the sake of Psychology students, I trust that quotations out of context and refusals to have open discussions of his writings are not generally characteristic of Mr. Herrnstein's intellectual armamentarium. R.C. Lewontin Professor of Biology
...public wants of course is somewhat contradictory. It wishes to have the practical general practioner of the 18th and 19th centuries but endowed with all the knowledge and skills of the 20th century specialist. It wants the comfort of the home visit combined with all the diagnostic and therapeutic armamentarium of the modern hospital. And it wants all this for less money than it costs today...