Word: arsenal
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...Small Arsenal. The first sign that Greece had become a channel for the gunrunners came earlier this year, when a small arsenal was discovered in the home of a promonarchist deputy of the New Democracy Party named Hippocrates Savvouras. Savvouras, who admitted that the illegal arms were his (Greece has a strict antigun law), was kicked out of his party. Two prominent members of militant Socialist Andreas Papandreou's Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) were also caught in possession of five Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher. Both were tried and received suspended sentences...
...extraordinary new novel, The Family Arsenal, Paul Theroux's characters often are lost like this somewhere in the heart of the city. In fact, stumbling through England's dark, damp, declining metropolis becomes for Theroux like reading that dark, damp, declining novelistic form of sharp turns and blind alleys, the thriller. As in T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, to which The Family Arsenal seems to invite comparison, the characters emerge at first as anonymous voices: a crook prowling a seedy riverside district; an accountant who refuses to yield his house to a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood, an aristocratic woman who collects...
...conversations that Gawber hears over his apparently interconnected telephone wires have deeply disturbed his sense of order and privacy. So like a conspirator, alone with his wife in their enormous house, Gawber "guards against alarm." He has seen the handwriting on the wall. He knows what the football slogan "Arsenal Rule", scrawled across broken windows everywhere, really means. Gawber waits for the great clap of thunder when the ground will open up and London will fall into...
...action of the novel in motion. He pursues a man who has bullied a poor street sweeper and beats him to death in a deserted alley. Hood thinks the murder an act complete in itself, but he falls in love with Lorna, his victim's window, and finds an arsenal of weapons in her house...
There was another gun in CFLT's arsenal. According to King's office, "even the poor people are afraid," because Piro's bill would have provided $40 million less than what the legislature wanted. When the grad tax is in, watch the legislature raise the rates; so goes the story. The charge was echoed by CFLT's friendly competitor, People Against Increased Income Tax (PAIIC...