Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascist personality, or a stool pigeon, police agent or provocateur." To finance revolutionary endeavors, he suggests robbing banks; trying not to overlook anything, he goes so far as to advise "locking people in the bank bathroom, making them sit on the floor." For the urban guerrilla's arsenal, Marighella recommends "Molotov cocktails, gasoline, homemade contrivances such as catapults and mortars for firing explosives, grenades made of tubes and cans, smoke bombs, mines, conventional explosives, plastic explosives, gelatine capsules...
...pair had burst into the cockpit and when the pilots tried to radio an alarm to the ground, opened fire. One passenger said the stewardess was killed as she tried to keep the hijackers out of the cockpit. The hijackers carried five firearms and three hand grenades-an extraordinary arsenal in any case but particularly for Soviet citizens, who are prohibited from owning firearms without special permission.* They also had about $5,000 in Soviet and U.S. currency...
...takeover in an adjacent jail. The identity of the saboteurs in the other two explosions is not certain, but the tactics have all the earmarks of the Weathermen. In Seattle, as in New York and San Rafael, authorities were tipped off in advance of the bombings. The Santa Barbara arsenal serves as the staging point for the area's National Guard troops, the ones who frequently draw riot duty...
...hour supply of mouth froth, a dentifrice rather than a drama. Vonnegut's cute conceit has been to debunk the Ulysses myth in terms of the Hemingway legend. As Vonnegut sees it, war is a kind of priapic transplant for men whose sexual insecurity demands the bolstering arsenal of the sword, the gun, the hunt and the kill. As amateur psychologizing, that may be perfectly acceptable; as drama, it turns out to be perfectly dreadful...
...students looked to her for guidance. She usually went braless and barefoot, her brown shoulder-length hair falling onto an orange smock. In Kathy's Back Bay apartment, police said, they found a field telephone switchboard, three rifles, a carbine, a pistol and a shotgun, along with an arsenal of ammunition. At least one item, the switchboard, was identified as belonging to the looted armory...