Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McGill credits his surprising success to a varied arsenal of strong serves and to his success at psyching opponents. "Psychological factors are very important in ping-pong," McGill said. "Talk before a game can be especially important. In my first match I mentioned I'd been in other tournaments and that seemed to shake up my opponent...
Modeling themselves on Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas, Bonnie und Clyde set about fighting society by assembling an arsenal of guns, robbing banks and stealing fast cars (they preferred BMWs). According to Ruhland's testimony, the gang lacked neither ideas nor ambition. At one point, they planned to break into a Bundeswehr arms depot at Munsterlager; another time, they hoped to free captured members of their group either by staging a prison raid with a tiny homemade helicopter or by kidnaping Chancellor Willy Brandt and using him in a prisoner exchange...
Alarming Rate. Even without a carrier force, the psychological and political impact of the Soviet navy is far greater than its actual power and potential would warrant. In terms of firepower and megatonnage, the other Russian services are more awesome. Moscow's arsenal of 1,510 nuclear-tipped ICBMs, which outnumber the U.S.'s Minutemen by 3 to 2, remains the major Russian strategic threat. Its superbly equipped army (2,000,000) is still the biggest worry to the U.S. and its NATO allies in Europe. Russian airpower, which is continually probing the air defenses of Western Europe...
...which had committed the grievous crime of printing a picture of Davis with the caption: "Benjamin O. Davis--Safety Director?" The fact that $10,000 of the funds in the "Cleveland Now" program, funded by business and private contributions to aid community development, ultimately was used to stock the arsenal of the black organization most responsible for the Glenville riots destroyed any hope for further community cooperation. The Stokes Administration's failure to insure basic protection became an over-riding issue from then...
...position in the world at a critical period. As one White House aide put it: "Without foreign aid the President will have a more difficult time convincing the Russians and the Chinese when he's negotiating with them. If there is no foreign aid in the arsenal, you don't shoot as far." The simple assumption is that foreign aid makes friends for the U.S., and thus adds to the weight that Washington can wield vis-à-vis Moscow and Peking. If military aid to Cambodia and Viet Nam are cut back, the State Department suggests, it will...