Word: arsenals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountains, of swirling dust and barely passable roads. It is an inhospitable land to everybody except bandits and smugglers. For more than a decade, the most notorious bandit in the area has been Mehmet Ihsan Kilit, known throughout Turkey simply as "Kocero." He usually looked like a walking arsenal, with bandoleers of cartridges over his chest, binoculars dangling from his neck, a rifle slung over his shoulder, and a hunting knife or a revolver seemingly glued to his hand. He was believed to have killed at least half a dozen...
...DRUGS. Tranquilizing gas, says Colonel Applegate, will some day be used to calm combative rioters, and dart-injected soporifics will put them to sleep. He concedes that such weapons are still too dangerous to be included in a prudent arsenal of necessary minimum force...
...which has no visible effects on criminals, requires hard-to-get police permits for pistols, even when they are kept at home. Flatly forbidden is the mere possession of any billy, blackjack, bludgeon, bomb, bombshell, firearm silencer, machine gun, metal knuckles, sandbag, sandclub or "slungshot" (slingshot). The arsenal is so well-stocked that choice is inevitably confusing. Arlene Del Fava, along with many another New Yorker, has decided that from now on there is only one side arm that will keep her safe from both cops and robbers-"a hatpin like grandmother used to carry...
...accomplished one of the greatest scientific, engineering and construction feats in history. It has produced and deployed a versatile flock of big birds: the pioneering Atlas, the more powerful two-stage Titan, the stopgap IRBMs Thor and Jupiter, and those truly pushbutton solid-fueled mainstays of the nuclear arsenal, the mass-produced Minuteman and the elusive, submarine-borne Polaris...
...where he built up to assets of $151 million, with 90 offices from Honolulu to Switzerland. His one and great pleasure was going on African safari, from which he returned to decorate his office with water-buffalo heads, rhinoceros hides, an elephant's foot-and an arsenal of small arms...