Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late, adding: "But it shows we are winning-this is Portugal's first reform in 500 years." His guerrillas, armed with muzzle-loading flintlocks and a few modern weapons captured in ambushes, confidently await next month's rains, when the roads will be impassable to Portuguese armor and the isolated army outposts can be surrounded and picked...
...death during the Stalin purges, Vergelis got right to work at the politics of survival during the thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin. After the Suez invasion, Vergelis dashed off a Yiddish poem furiously attacking Israel. "We will force our enemies to surrender their antiSoviet armor," said he, in a bitter attack on all anti-Communist Jews outside the Soviet Union...
Across the globe, U.S. supply dumps are perilously low-lower, some Pentagon experts claim, than they were before the Korean War. The new funds will buy mountains of ammunition and fleets of new tactical support vehicles, such as armored personnel carriers and the highly-mobile 50-ton M-60 tanks, which are badly needed to match the powerful Russian armor now deployed in Europe...
...This is not the first time that a small band of freedom fighters has engaged the armor of totalitarianism...
...this inspired them to found a newsletter, called International Art Market, that would guide buyers by supplying prices paid at as many auction houses as possible throughout the world. The first issue shows that about the only bearish thing on the market during the past two months has been armor. At Christie's in London, a recent sale of 358 items brought in less than $34,000; at the Palais Galliera in Paris, on the other hand, someone paid $48,000 for a small Louis XVI table. In the past year, the prices of Flemish, French and Italian Renaissance...