Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Geneva-based cult, the Order of the Solar Temple, and a network of clubs that promoted his lectures and served as recruitment centers. He adapted Catholic rituals, including communion offered at masses where he played the priest. Like David Koresh, he eventually began urging his followers to stockpile an arsenal of weapons to prepare for the end of the world. In 1993 he fled Canada after pleading guilty to charges that he had tried illegally to obtain three guns with silencers...
This quote comes to me from a book by Nick Hornby (an Englishman with a predilection for the Arsenal soccer club of north London) called Fever Pitch, a wonderful autobiography about a life of following one's favorite sport with the life-and-death passion of a trapeze artist...
...Alan Durban, manager of Stoke City in the English First Division, who served up this tasty little remark to the assembled postgame press after attempting to play for a boring 0-0 draw away to Arsenal (losing only to two late goals) during the 1980-81 season...
...special forces troops removed their helmets and flak jackets to show they were not in combat mode but were officially cooperating with the Haitian army. Even so, Haitian officers watched sullenly in the compound of Camp d'Application last week as the Americans dismantled Haiti's only arsenal of heavy weapons. Church bells joyfully tolled noon as U.S. vehicles towed the few Haitian armored cars and artillery pieces through the camp's wide iron gates, past a mural proclaiming HONNEUR, DISCIPLINE, COMPETENCE. Along the road leading to Port-au-Prince, a crowd of civilians applauded and cheered...
Following a review of the nation's nuclear deterrent, the Pentagon announced it had decided to keep the current arsenal essentially intact, given the uncertainties of the post-cold war world order. By and large, U.S. nuclear forces will not be reduced beyond changes necessitated by Bush-era treaties with Moscow...