Word: armfuls
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...that they were issued weapons without ammunition and instructed to take no hostile action unless fired upon. This is extraordinary in light of the known threat environment and long-standing Navy ship defense doctrine. It seems the lessons of the 1983 Beirut bombings and the fateful decision not to arm Marine guards at the Tehran Embassy in 1979 were not learned. Given the evidence, the Cole was apparently aware of the possibility of terrorist attack but not permitted to take preventive action because of a Navy order preventing the sailors from firing weapons for fear of political repercussions. This indicates...
...company, which was known as Harvard Apparatus until last October, emphatically denies that its company could be mistaken for an arm of the University...
...they kept Harvard Apparatus or Harvard Pump Company or Harvard Equipment Company, that...does not confuse the public," said Joel R. Leeman, an attorney working for the University. "But once it switches to Harvard Bioscience, it sounds like an arm of Harvard University...
Ranger George knows every inch of his acreage. His arm shoots out to point at the different kinds of oaks, the elm and the hackberry. There's an overwhelming brownness as you look out over large portions of his land, which have the texture of a worn brush. He stops the truck to show us a rare cottonwood and make sure we can all see the white-tailed deer hiding in the trees. "Motts are what they call those groupings of oaks," notes Bush. He catalogs every stream crossing, every canyon and the precise number of cows, bulls and calves...
...long arm of President Vladimir Putin on Monday reached all the way to the Spanish seaside resort of Sotogrande, where Russian media magnate Vladimir Gusinsky was detained overnight by Spanish police executing an international arrest warrant. Gusinsky, whose independent Media-Most empire has long been regarded as a thorn in the Kremlin's side, is wanted in Moscow on charges of embezzlement, but has been living primarily in exile since his release after spending three days in prison in June...