Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, the Arab states were eager to expand their arsenals. Moreover, the rise in oil prices gave them billions to spend on whatever weapons they desired. "That's when the middlemen like Khashoggi really started to make their killings," says one Middle Eastern arms dealer. "It was the gold rush of the 20th century. Every con man in the world was in Arabia." Between 1970 and 1975, Lockheed alone paid Khashoggi $106 million in commissions. During this same period, he is said to have collected hundreds of millions from other corporations. Khashoggi, says...
...proposed new constitution, the ballot will in effect be a referendum on Aquino. She is putting her immense personal prestige on the line by canvassing the country on behalf of a document that has galvanized her opponents. Meanwhile, negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front, the political arm of the Communist insurgency, are stalemated...
Several times during Harvard's dramatic sweep of Penn and Princeton, Roby pranced up and down the court, exhorting the large Briggs Athletic Center crowds to stand and cheer for his cagers. The partisan fans responded to Roby's arm waves, and--perhaps, not coincidentally--the Crimson players did too with a pair of upsets...
...case for Ed's "endearing thickness" so cannily that it almost seems true. But, as it turns out, Sally is really the dumb one: Ed's seeming obtuseness is only his shield against her disdain. Sally glimpses that truth when she catches her husband at a party with his arm pressed against Marylynne's "shimmering upper thigh." Too late, Sally muses, "Possibly he's enormously clever...
...Francis, and the person she and Jack are retrieving is not dead. Amelita Sosa has in fact been smuggled by Lucy out of Nicaragua, footsteps ahead of Colonel Dagoberto Godoy, a murderous former member of the Somoza military dictatorship and now a leader of the contras in their armed struggle against the ruling Sandinistas. The colonel, for rather complex reasons, has come to New Orleans to kill Amelita, his onetime mistress, and to solicit private businessmen for contributions to be used, ostensibly, to arm the contras. The figure he has in mind is $5 million; he carries a letter...