Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Gerald Ford's ammunition was two briefing books: a 50-page collection of memos summarizing his position on nearly every conceivable campaign issue and a more than 400-page volume of the quotations of Candidate Jimmy Carter. Carter's arsenal of issues and answers was contained in two thick briefing books, each bound in black vinyl. Both candidates were, of course, psyching themselves up for Dday: this week's potentially pivotal opening debate in the presidential campaign of 1976. Both claimed to be confidently looking forward to the face-to-face meeting before some 800 reporters...
...they did was something of a miracle. TIME'S Dean Brelis cabled: "Overlooking Tel Zaatar from the Christian headquarters, I could not see how anyone remained alive in the camp. The Christians had every kind of artillery piece from 75-mm. howitzers to 155-mm. heavies. The arsenal of machine guns ripped into the fragile tin-roofed shelters of Tel Zaatar with the thundering force of an avalanche. Later, talking to Jean Hoefliger, chief of the International Red Cross, who had just gone into the camp to help the wounded, I asked him what it was like. 'Every...
...tried to escape. Twice he attempted to enter Canada, but was turned away by border officials, who were suspicious of the arsenal of guns and ammunition he was carrying in the back of his white 1963 Chrysler. Schoenfeld began selling his guns, using his own driver's license for identification, and the FBI got on his trail. At dawn last Thursday he was captured as he turned off Highway 101 near Menlo Park, Calif., about one mile from his home in Atherton...
...quickly counterattacked, accusing Korchnoi of being "obsessed with vanity." In fact, Korchnoi has been in dutch with Soviet chess officials more or less constantly since 1974, when he lost in a semifinal world championship match to Karpov and then complained publicly that his fellow grandmaster had a "poor chess arsenal." But Korchnoi's gambit seems to have caught everyone off guard, particularly his wife and 17-year-old son in Leningrad. They knew nothing of the defection until they heard it announced on a Voice of America radio broadcast...
...child. He feels responsible for his.own "family" as well and finds himself playing a stern Victorian father when Brodie is seduced by an aristocratic lesbian. Meanwhile, the threatened I.R.A. London offensive remains stalled, and a host of coconspirators barges into the complicated story. On this surface, The Family Arsenal glitters. American-born, Theroux has nonetheless acquired an ear for varieties of British speech. His book is crammed with comic dialogue and Pinteresque moments of tongue-tied malevolence. Descriptive passages are often telling and wise: "He had always hated public houses; they were dirty and uncongenial, the haunts of resignation, attracting...