Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designed to replace, but the Army assures us it's "the best tank in the world." That's a dubious claim: the West German Leopard II outperformed the M-1 in competition, but the Army refuses to use a foreign tank. The M-1's much-touted Chobham armor is much more effective than previous armor, but it is so expensive that it's only being put on the front. The M-1's gas turbine engine makes it lightning fast. But such engines require a lot of air, which the M-1 takes in through a defective filter that...
About 20 medieval fighters, some wearing brightly-colored tunies and vinyl attracted much attention around the Quad Sunday afternoon as they battled with swords, spears, polearms, shields, and armor in their first "practice" at Harvard...
Such Blimpish prejudice is galling, especially to those who, regarding themselves as tough-minded and not fainthearted, will see these books as further evidence that war is too devilishly attractive to be left to the generals. Hackett's lip-smacking language ("seek and destroy armor, shortened into the not infelicitous little acronym SADARM") can make the military mind seem demented. But civilian harrumphing is no more useful than the military kind, and reading Hackett's prickly books goads the reader to ask: How can the human race evolve beyond the savagery of tribalistic nationalism? -By John Skow...
Early on Wednesday morning the ninth cease-fire is broken as Israeli armor attempts to move into West Beirut. To cover the advance, Israeli artillery and ships drop shells everywhere. Not a single area escapes untouched: for the first time Hamra, the heart of the commercial area, comes under sustained and heavy shelling...
...beers, Natural Light and Michelob Light, have proved only moderately popular. Undeterred, the firm is spending some $50 million this year to launch yet a third reduced-calorie entry, Budweiser Light. Claims Anheuser-Busch President Dennis Long: "We are starting to see some chinks in Miller Lite's armor...