Word: armoring
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...know perfectly well how things will turn out," the knight explained, his armor probably still smeared with the blood of Archbishop Thomas a Becket. "King Henry?God bless him?will have to say, for reasons of state, that he never meant this to happen; and there is going to be an awful...
...clothes for art's sake. The designers of these garments (weavers, needleworkers and painters) sacrifice the practical for the spectacular. These robes of many colors shimmer with feathers, beads, buttons and metallic threads. An ordinary flight jacket, when encrusted with 25,000 brass safety pins, is transformed into glittering armor. Knitted into a wool jacket, along with abstract images of the sun and its rays, are words by Walt Whitman ("Give me the splendid, silent sun/With all his beamsfull?dazzling"). A book for people who dress to thrill...
...military aid package announced Friday is designed to help equip government forces with helicopters, heavier weapons and armor, and communications gear that would give them the capacity to operate independently against Taliban guerrillas in harsh terrain. But that won't happen in time to face the Taliban's anticipated spring offensive. So, the Pentagon also announced Wednesday that 3,200 soldiers from the U.S. 10th Mountain Division will have their tour of duty in Afghanistan extended by four months. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he is likely to ask President Bush for several thousand more American troops augment...
...that there can be a truly representative Iraqi unity government in the near future. If large portions of the Iraqi people cannot even hold back sectarian angst to carry out a proper execution, we fail to see how the Bush administration’s solution of more bullets, more armor, and a “surge” of 20,000 to 40,000 troops will facilitate democracy, stability, or functional institutions. It’s not time to leave Iraq yet, but the fallout from Saddam’s execution is one more indication that the American presence there...
...course, but intercontinental cable systems can cost billions of dollars, so they tend to connect to countries where demand is greatest and they often lack costly parallel backup circuits that would be underused most of the time. Vulnerabilities exist, and the recent quake found a chink in the armor. It struck in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan, an area that has an unusual concentration of major undersea cables. "It's quite an exceptional event to have so many cables tear at once," says Gary Chan, a computer-engineering professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology...