Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wearing armor suited to stopping vulcanized rubber traveling 100 miles per hour...
Stung by the charges of sexism, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week announced the formation of a high-level Task Force on Women in the Military, headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Armor. "This kind of sexual harassment will not be allowed," Armor declared at a press conference. He said the Defense Department does not question what the investigators found, conceding that the policy against sexual harassment had "broken down in some instances." The task force has been ordered to recommend ways to prevent any more such incidents...
...month run in Washington, which could be a corker. In the Oval Office last week for an interview with TIME, he looked healthier and more vigorous than recent press accounts have portrayed him. Yet he has been burned and battered by events and people, and his caution was like armor -- a shield that every modern President adopts eventually, no matter what vows he makes about open communion to the end. "There's always a target painted on the Chief Executive's door," he says...
...Exeter, Perry studied hard but adopted a street-savvy swagger to mask his own insecurities. He was obsessed with race and brandished his blackness as both emblem and armor: he declared that he had a mission to help his people and bitterly attacked the school for racism often more imagined than real. But beneath his angry rhetoric lurked a secret, which Anson stumbles on almost by accident: Eddie was dealing drugs...
...weaponry, a relatively inexpensive frigate like the Stark is not made to fight on its own. With medium-range striking power and armor less than an inch thick (the plating on the battleship New Jersey is up to 17 inches thick), the Stark is an escort ship designed for what Naval Analyst Bruce Linder calls a "low-threat environment" far less intense than what a naval battle group would encounter in wartime. The Navy is acquiring 50 of these Perry-class frigates, the largest class of U.S. combat ships built since 1945. Linder predicts that the ship "may quickly confront...