Word: bazooka
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Then, suddenly, there was. Prager and Rubinger, along with some 150 other newsmen, were asleep at Nicosia's posh Ledra Palace Hotel when the Turkish attack began. They awoke to the sound of gunfire and could see paratroopers dotting the skies. A bazooka shell hit the hotel, killing two Greek soldiers. Power at the Ledra was cut off, and reporters were unable to file their stories. Prager managed to phone Marmon at Efty's apartment to convey eyewitness accounts of the fighting. Marmon, in turn, though periodically distracted by "soldiers with a weird assortment of weapons drifting into...
...Greeks began shooting, and they soon drew counterfire. A heavy shell, possibly a bazooka, hit the northeast corner of the building, killing one Greek Cypriot soldier and fatally wounding a second. The Turks continued to shell the hotel roof intermittently. None of the hundreds of journalists and guests crowding into the lower floors were injured by the Turkish firing. Later, when the Greeks removed their guns from the hotel and withdrew to the patio, they were loudly cheered by the much relieved newsmen and guests...
Merle, a Frenchman who teaches English at the Sorbonne, is shrewd in his development of Comte as a benevolent Machiavellian. To counter a marauding band armed with a bazooka, Comte sets about re-creating the art of war. To deal with a neighboring town of survivors ruled by a pseudo priest named Fulbert, Comte recovers the art of diplomacy and the balance of power...
...WILLIAM ("BO") MATTHEWS, Colorado, 6 ft. 2 in., 219 Ibs. The scouts' eyes are popping over Green. "He's the type who can make a weaker pro franchise into a contending club," they say. Blasting out of the backfield as if he were fired from a bazooka, Green has darted through defenders for 1,182 yds. this season. Matthews is a big powerful runner who rolls over rather than around tacklers. But his greatest attraction to the pros is his blocking prowess: "This man dominates a game whether he's carrying the ball or blocking for someone...
...light antitank weapon), a hand-held bazooka-type rocket that weighs only...