Word: armoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tenants are helpless and poor. All landlords are despotic, rich and insatiably greedy--if not "milkers" of property who take the rent money and run, then "goldplaters" who repair their buildings just to raise rents extravagantly. And the Rent Control knights-in-shining armor save defenseless tenants from despotic landlords...
...battle for Khafji was a case in point. Though pool reporters were stationed with the 1st U.S. Marine Division outside the Saudi city, they were not allowed into the town until 18 hours after fighting started between Iraqi armor and coalition forces. Early accounts of the battle came mostly from reporters operating on their own. One of them, John King of the Associated Press, sneaked into the city on the first night of fighting and watched as Arab troops tried to retake the town. "The pools did not get an accurate view ((of the battle)) because they didn...
...unlikely to succeed. Allied commanders vowed to start the main offensive when they are good and ready. Nor did they have to divert any air power. In fact, planes swarmed to attack Iraqi armor in such numbers that they got in one another's way. But enough U.S. and allied planes were still available to carry out a full schedule of attacks throughout Kuwait and Iraq. Militarily, said General Norman Schwarzkopf, top allied commander in the gulf area, the Khafji battles were about as significant "as a mosquito on an elephant...
American A-10 attack planes and Cobra and Apache helicopters and infantry weapons appeared to be quite as deadly as advertised against Iraqi armor. General Schwarzkopf would confirm only 24 Iraqi tanks definitely destroyed, but other counts for the border battles as a whole ran as high as 80 vehicles. Correspondents who were allowed into Khafji Thursday afternoon reported that the streets were littered with the burning hulks of Soviet-made armored personnel carriers, knocked out by American TOW missiles fired by Saudi and Qatari infantrymen. U.S. Marines lost three light armored vehicles (LAVs) in the fighting around Umm Hujul...
...kinder, gentler anti-war movement of the 1990s, however, things have changed. American troops are no longer seen as the embodiment of evil. This time around, they're practically knights in shining armor...