Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face him along the road to Miami Beach. Then last week the Democratic Party's Credentials Committee voted to deprive McGovern of 151 of the 271 delegates he had captured in California's winner-take-all primary last month. Instead of having a virtually unbeatable first-ballot arsenal, the South Dakotan suddenly had his delegate strength pared, at least for the present, down to well below 1,300 -far short of the 1,509 needed for nomination. Suddenly Hubert Humphrey was politically alive again. So, for that matter, were Edmund Muskie and any number of dark horses. What...
...farm, agents seized an arsenal of a dozen rifles, two shotguns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and some 40 fireworks bombs. Police theorize that the bombs, which look and sound like hand grenades, were to be used to flush the Gallos out of their Brooklyn stronghold. Then they would be picked off with gunfire as they fled...
...guys in the funny T-shirts were going to go by the wayside, and a few studs would be imported to beef up the starting lineups. This worried The Pork. Among the first recruits, he had been an ace. Your basic wide receiver. Not with an arsenal of moves, but your standard head feints and hip fakes, and sticky hands. A former JV captain for the Boston Technical Tigers, who had gotten away from the game, but was still within a few hundred pushups and pass patterns of his top form...
...more important, the U.S. should assure Peking that it would not attack her fledgling nuclear arsenal and that it would use nuclear weapons against her only in self-defense; assurances followed by the withdrawal of U.S. nuclear warheads around her would be even more effective...
Purse-size electric cattle prods. Lipstick cases that are really tear-gas guns. Canes that double as daggers. As muggers across the nation are discovering, these are the latest additions to a growing James Bond arsenal of protective devices used by city dwellers to fend off would-be assailants...