Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...residually romantic view of war (up until recently, the American view), it was an essentially knightly exercise--a man riding out in resplendent armor (B-52s, perhaps, Hueys, the light observation helicopters known as Loaches, all of that brilliant technology) to rescue the innocent ! from the wicked. In the original versions of the knightly ideal, the wicked were the enemies of Christ, a role for which Communists qualify...
Bumbling his way through 13th Century France, Broderick'ss Phillippe is the quintessential nerd-in-shining armor. Responding to Navarre's grandiloquent statement that Phillippe's arrival is a sign from God that Navarre must meet his destiny by murdering the vile Bishop who has cast a spell over Navarre and his lady love Isabeau (Michelle Pfeitter), the Mouse quips, "Well, Sir, I talk to God all the time, but meaning no disrespect he never mentioned...
...family and close friends. By the adroit use of such detail, Barnes builds a warmer personality for the novelist than his glacial public image. Flaubert's stiff shyness and pride, his solitary stance in life and self-described bearishness become signs of human vulnerability rather than the armor of an artist against the distractions of the world...
...assault troops crossed the marshes and set up positions on the banks of the Tigris; a few units even crossed the river on pontoon bridges to the vicinity of the highway between Baghdad and Basra, Iraq's second city. When the Iraqis eventually counterattacked with heavy concentrations of armor and artillery, the Iranians dug in and fought back. That they had put up a valiant struggle was demonstrated by the burned- out hulks of Iraqi tanks and armored personnel carriers littering the battlefield. The Iranian infantry, although well armed, carried little more than automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades...
...Iraqis took severe losses as they sealed off the invasion area east of the Tigris and advanced from the north and south. They brought vastly superior firepower to bear--helicopter gunships, heavy artillery, armor and air support --and in the end, that carried the day. "Getting the Iranian troops deployed in the marshes was a tremendous logistical accomplishment," a Western military attache in Baghdad explained last week, "but very few of those who got in will be able...