Word: armorer
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...Gorbachev had made a new proposal on arms reduction but that the U.S. had not fully digested it. "What is it?" Bush snapped. "Find out." Aides scurried for information from National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. Bush tucked the new development away in his mind without comment, a kind of armor against questions that might arise in his upcoming press conference...
...threat of conventional war, Mikhail Gorbachev is already committed to unilateral reductions in troops, armor and artillery. He might go further in the talks with the West now taking place in Vienna, and further still if short-range nuclear weapons are on the table...
...built during World War II and designed to withstand shelling from Japan's battleships. The Iowa was fitted with nine 16-in. guns capable of propelling shells weighing as much as 2,700 lbs. a distance of 23 miles. Three six-story turrets holding the guns were encased in armor up to 17 1/2 in. thick. When last week's explosion occurred during training exercises about 330 miles off Puerto Rico, that protective armor turned the turret into a tightly sealed pressure cooker...
...sell as many deadly weapons of as many kinds to as many Americans as possible. The N.R.A. never saw a weapon it didn't love. When American police officers raised their voices against the sale of "cop-killer" bullets -- Teflon-coated projectiles whose sole purpose is to penetrate body armor -- the N.R.A. mounted a campaign to make people believe this ban would infringe on the rights of deer hunters, as though the woods of America were full of whitetails in Kevlar vests. Now that the pressure is on to restrict public ownership of semiautomatic assault weapons, we hear the same...
...suicide leap from the sixth floor after a bad LSD trip. Your friendly Realtor might not mention that the brown house on Benedict Canyon Drive was the spot where George Reeves, TV's Superman, "fired a speeding bullet into his brain." Or that the large house with the armor-plated front door was Bugsy Siegel's place, where the gangster died in a hail of gunfire...