Word: arrowed
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...colleagues, Army Lieut. Colonel Wayne Gillespie seemed a straight-arrow soldier. A West Point graduate, he had served tours in West Germany and Viet Nam. Since 1982 Gillespie, 46, has been assigned to the Army Materiel Command in Alexandria, Va., where he worked on military projects with the U.S.'s NATO allies. But, according to FBI agents who arrested him last week, he was also part of a seven-member smuggling ring that conspired to ship antitank missiles to Iran, a country that has not legally received U.S. weapons since the takeover by Ayatullah Khomeini...
...unhappy with science, but as I swallow daily doses of electrons and orbitals and arrow-pushing, I try to fill my schedule with Shakespeare and Sophocles and even Spielberg for a little balance. At this point, I’ve taken more mediocre “exploratory” classes than I’d care to count, and I still haven’t found the path to my passion...
...cone; some were black, some pink. There were fires in the middle of the clouds. I checked my body. Three upper teeth were chipped off; perhaps a roof tile had hit me. My left arm was pierced by a piece of wood that stuck in my flesh like an arrow. Unable to pull it out, I tied a tourniquet around my upper arm to stanch the flow of blood. I had no other injuries, but I did not run away. We were taught that it was cowardly to desert one's classmates. So I crawled about the rubble, calling...
...orchestrate wars, at equal risk with the young people who do the actual fighting. Science has thus served as an equalizer between leaders and troops: "The young people who go around yelling 'Get rid of the Bomb!' ought to be careful, 'cause the politicians might put a bow and arrow in their hands and make the kids sally forth again, knowing that nothing is going to happen to them [the politicians]. With the development of nuclear weapons, the guy who says 'Go fight a war' is talking to himself...
...inevitable encounter in a John Boorman film: a man of the world and a nature boy face each other through the rushing curtain of a waterfall. The man, with machine gun poised to fire, represents civilization and its discontents; the boy, his bow and arrow taut, seems very much the noble savage painted in jungle pastels. In Deliverance, Zardoz, Exorcist II: The Heretic and Excalibur, Boorman set these same elemental antagonists, intellect and instinct, on a collision course. Here, though, he has added a crucial twist. Tomme (Charley Boorman) is the man's son, abducted by a Brazilian Indian tribe...