Word: armorers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hadn’t known my heart could be broken by a presidential election. Hadn’t I—hadn’t we—cultivated our world-weariness until it became not just a facade, but an armor? Didn’t we look really good, really convincingly jaded, dressed in vintage clothing, eyebrow arched, drinking our coffee black? Hadn’t we founded a half-assed arts collective in our common room? Didn’t we know kind of a lot of punk songs? Couldn’t we quote Sylvia Plath...
...corners of a country that has been ravaged by a six-year drought. With a little help from NATO friends, Washington must also extend the reach of the military civil-reconstruction teams into the mountainous provinces where they can disarm the warlords and build roads, schools and clinics. Armor-plated aid is needed to thrust into the southern and eastern regions where Taliban rebels find it easy to recruit Pashtun tribesmen who have received little relief from international agencies. Western diplomats in Kabul say that, at most, the Taliban, along with their allies al-Qaeda and renegade commander Gulbuddin...
...machine gun; his counterparts in other vehicles do likewise. The convoy U-turns en masse, back to Michigan, then back to sanctuary in the government center. No one is injured. One humvee has a flat tire, and another has been hit with two RPGS, which were deflected by the armor. A Marine says his crew saw an RPG team running down an alley and tried to take it out with an automatic grenade launcher, but the weapon jammed...
...sounds very high-minded, and we'll bet Sir Ridley makes that old armor shine like titanium. But if his knights don't enliven your film summer, you can always joust with George Lucas' Jedi in the last installment of a certain other epic...
...first hours of Operation Baton Rouge, as the assault on Samarra was code named, the insurgents would not even have known about the thousands of troops, heavy armor and attack helicopters massing against them. Any column entering the city could easily have been taken for just another patrol or sweep. But as early as Monday, a brigade-size contingent was quietly forming around the city...