Word: armoring
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...women’s basketball team in the history of women’s college sports,” Delaney-Smith said. “They looked God-awful [Friday] night. Why? Because they lost a couple and it’s just like that little chip in the armor and it just makes you hesitate, and makes you lose just a touch of confidence and [say], ‘Maybe we’re not so great, and maybe we’re not so invincible,’ and so this is just a classic reaction to losing...
...cinema verite record of the group's tour by Albert and David Maysles, is a brisk rough sketch of A Hard Day's Night, which the boys started making later that month. Same dashing from train to limo to photo op to TV stage. Same use of wit as armor against imprisonment and ennui. And the same amazing display of grace and good humor by four blithe Liverpudlians, ages 20 to 24. Leaving their hotel room to go to the Peppermint Lounge, they wave a sweet goodbye to the two-man camera crew. Did celebrity ever take such innocent pleasure...
Dean says his record in Vermont will be his armor against the Bush campaign's plans to paint him as some kind of fuzzy-headed radical (though his decision to seal some of his records is the subject of a court fight). But one question is whether voters will care more about what he did in Montpelier than what he says he will do in the White House. Dean's proudest boast is that he balanced 11 budgets in a row, and he promises to bring that same tightfistedness to Washington. But take a hard look at what...
...insurgents than had been seen before. The G.I.s drove into synchronized attacks on opposite ends of Samarra, about 70 miles north of Baghdad, as twin U.S. convoys escorted trucks delivering new post-Saddam currency to two city banks. The Americans were on general alert, traveling with plenty of heavy armor...
...incoming RPG some 18 in. away from the Stryker, minimizing the round's ability to bore through its skin and injure those inside. So why didn't the Army anticipate such a problem? It did: future versions of the Stryker will sport four tons of custom-made, high-tech armor, but those currently bound for Iraq are early models, making the ungainly $100,000 cages a necessary, if temporary, fix. --By Mark Thompson