Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powers of candlelight have long been part of Everywoman's arsenal. Beauty or not, she always looks loveliest in the warm glow thrown off by wax tapers gleaming over a banquet table or on a banquette in a quiet bistro. Largely because of this candelabracadabra, candles continued to sell at a respectable pace long after the rural-electrification program brought light bulbs into the most remote corners of the U.S. In recent months, however, Americans have gone on a candle-buying spree, spurred on by necessity, a changing national mood and by new candle shops stocked with imaginatively shaped...
...secrete many irritating substances. Certain grasshoppers and butterflies, for example, fight their foes with toxins that they accumulate by munching on milkweed plants. Moths pick up noxious alkaloids from other plants. Now it appears that some insects have gone one step further. They have managed to incorporate into their arsenal a chemical made...
...most advanced ground-to-air missiles in the Russian arsenal, is a mobile version of the stationary SA-2s. Code-named "Ganef"*by NATO, the SA-4s have tanklike tracks and can be swiftly shifted. They are being deployed as part of the defense umbrella near the Aswan Dam and at Nag Hamadi, 125 miles north of Aswan on the Nile. In addition, more SA-3s and SA-2s are being shipped to Egypt. Israeli military sources conjecture that with Egyptians manning missile defenses near Suez, the Russians may feel that more batteries are necessary to make...
...COST IN DOLLARS. The U.S. is turning over an awesome and expensive arsenal free of charge to the South Vietnamese, including 1,200 aircraft from U-17 trainers to F-5 jet fighters, enough to give the South Vietnamese the world's seventh largest air force by 1974 or 1975. The Vietnamese navy already has received nearly all of a fleet of 1,600 boats and ships; the ground forces are getting-among other things-640,000 M-16 rifles, 20,000 machine guns, 34,000 grenade launchers, 870 howitzers, 10,000 81-mm. mortars, 220 M41 tanks...
...uncanny command of stagecraft, that arsenal of small gestures and bits of business that an actor uses to establish his character for the audience. In the final scene of a 1962 production of The Merchant of Venice, Scott, playing Shylock, held a handkerchief belonging to his daughter Jessica. The production was staged outdoors, near a lake in New York's Central Park, and every night a gentle wind blew across the stage. To signify Shylock's loss of Jessica, Scott simply released the handkerchief, and the wind carried it away. In O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms...