Word: arsenals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guns, were flattened under barrages from 105-mm. howitzers. Evidently disregarding orders from Paris-a tradition with the French army-tanks and armored cars roared 15 miles outside the Bizerte base. Tanks sprayed bullets into the town of Menzel-Bourguiba, nine miles from Bizerte, where the French maintain an arsenal and shipyard. Soon there were 27 Tunisian corpses laid out beneath the stadium bleachers near a sign reading "HalfTime resting place." Ten were civilians. In Tunis thousands had demonstrated, chanting "Na Moutou [We will die]." Few thought they would be taken seriously...
...with it. She has no money, but takes the brick and, in innocence, offers it for the thug to a hysterical old man. A cop comes, the thug runs, she is led off to the station. There she panics, locks herself into what turns out to be the station arsenal. But the chief of police is coming for an inspection, and the door must be opened. A convict safecracker is summoned, dressed in a cop's uniform. The chief praises him for his honest face...
...five hours, until well after dawn, the sweating workers lugged thousands of cases of small arms and ammunition down to waiting police trucks. Finally, the heavily laden vehicles headed off in convoy up the coastal highway to Elmina Castle, which now serves as Ghana's top-secret arsenal for Moscow's guns...
Seeing & Stretching. In 1907 she set up a school in Rome for obstreperous slum kids, using an arsenal of ingenious devices that moved from the sensory to the abstract. By handling and copying letters cut out of cardboard, the kids at four simply fell into writing and then reading. By feeling beads strung on wires in units of ten, they "saw" numbers and learned to compute in their heads. With the teacher acting only as guide, each child worked alone at his own little table or on a small rug, where he could lay out beads and blocks, and incidentally...
...first speech at the U.N., Moscoso outlined Puerto Rico's successful principles of industrial growth: sound government, with adequate planning, budgeting and auditing; education to provide industrial brainpower; just distribution of the fruits of industrialization. Said Moscoso: "Tax reforms and land reforms would also be part of this arsenal. For if the masses do not feel that they are participating in the advance of the economy, they will not support a development program indefinitely...