Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some Senators wondered, did the U.S. require such an augmented arsenal just at the moment when its vast expenditures in Southeast Asia had ended? Liberals such as Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy argued for reordered priorities. Said Minnesota's Walter Mondale: "We have kept our military machine polished but have let our cities decay, our transportation systems collapse, our national unity dissolve." A counterargument held that a reduction in defense spending would actually damage the domestic economy by throwing thousands out of work. The liberals' central argument was that, as Kennedy said, with 22,000 tactical nuclear weapons stockpiled...
...most powerful sequences in the movie is a fight he has with his daughter. He emits a terrifying, maniacal laugh and she pleads, them demands that he stop. He continues to laugh and she responds with a weapon from her own arsenal, singing "Jeepers, creepers! Where'd y'get them peepers," aggressively shaking her breasts in his face. The scene ends with Faye slapping him, then explaining patiently to Tod that she had to do it, for his own good...
...forces on our soil for too long," said Seni Pramoj, the brother of Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj. "We sent our troops to fight in Viet Nam. I'm sure that the Viet Cong did not like our actions." With South Viet Nam's captured American arsenal and a rich new source of manpower-the population of both Viet Nams is about 43,000,000-Hanoi will now be the preeminent military power in Southeast Asia, and its neighbors are nervously wondering whether it will be content with last week's victory or pursue an expansionist policy...
...chief target: the bulging files in which U.S. agencies keep billions of classified documents, ranging from sensitive details about the nation's nuclear arsenal to dossiers on citizens who have been put under surveillance because they attended radical (or not so radical) political meetings. Late last year Congress moved to open up more of those files. It liberally amended the 1966 Freedom of Information Act in an effort to remove some of the procedural obstacles that bureaucrats had set up to frustrate the law's purpose, which was to make available to the public all but the most...
...smoothly-executed game, the Crimson powered its way over its smaller opponents en route to a 15-0 whitewashing. Mike Winn scored on two tries and Jim Boland was another standout in the Crimson arsenal...