Word: arsenale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby. Actually, this book should be read by anyone with a pulse, not just soccer fans. Hornby chronicles the relationship between sport and life through the lens of his own obsessive relationship with Arsenal Football Club; off-beat, thoughtful and often gutbustingly funny, it makes for an easy, quick read that might change the way you look at sport...
...Stars Pub. A quick (10 minutes from the Square) walk to 912 Massachusetts Avenue brings you Saturday and Sunday afternoon coverage of the English Premiership in a friendly atmosphere. The pub is Irish (and the Guinness half-decent), but expect lots of English expats cheering their favorite clubs from Arsenal to Liverpool...
Wise guys call it "the magic box." It's the hottest item in the underworld high-technology arsenal--and the feds' worst nightmare. This cigarette pack-size gizmo threatens to send the wiretap the way of the FBI fedora. It sells for about $1,200 from some mail-order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...
...fallout from September's miniwar between Israelis and Palestinians continues. Israeli intelligence reports that Yasser Arafat's security forces, worried about another armed confrontation, are working around the clock to obtain an arsenal of antitank and antiaircraft missiles--weapons they are forbidden to have under the Oslo accords. The arms would give Palestinian forces a more credible response to the tanks and attack helicopters that the Israeli army deployed last time. Palestinian security officials deny any official involvement in weapons smuggling but acknowledge that their forces already possess dozens of LAW antitank missiles confiscated from or donated by local Islamic...
...invited me to participate in a presidential debate. I'd never invite me either. Why not? Because before I took the veil of journalism, I was one of those operatives, spending days and nights drilling candidates with every conceivable question they could possibly expect--which means I have an arsenal of questions they could not possibly anticipate...