Word: bazookas
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...complaining about their majors, rather like soldiers in a hospital comparing their wounds. "I'm an English major" is roughly equivalent in such language to "I've got gangrene," while "That's nothing, I'm an Ec major" corresponds indirectly to "I got hit in the head with a bazooka." "Well, I'm a Pre-Med" means, of course, "I'm slightly wounded, but I survived by throwing my buddies on a live grenade...
...hair. Left his head barren as the floor of the Mojave. Whole time in the chair the boy didn't say a word. Even admired himself in the double mirror afterwards, stuck out his chin like a cowboy star. When I finished he took a piece of Bazooka Joe from the mason jar, popped it in his mouth, and stabbed me with his fishing knife. Had a right, of course. Been my father, I'd gone for the jugular...
...doesn't do nothing 'cept watch you as you drift down the drainage ditch. Floating, you can see an old man on the shore, touching up his hair with a two-bit comb, jawing on a wad of fresh Bazooka...
...Jaruzelski and Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq on the guest list, the precautions are not excessive. The U.N. has been brushed by terrorism before. In 1964, as Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara was castigating the U.S. in the General Assembly chamber, an anti-Castro group fired a 3 1/2-in. bazooka round at the U.N. from the Queens side of the East River. (It fell 200 yds. short, rattling the windows and more than a few delegates.) The security chiefs' greatest fear this time around is that Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi and Cuban President Fidel Castro, both of whom are expected...
...which motives, loyalties and identities are lost in a tangle of crime and counterinsurgency. The absurdist flavor of his account is best sampled through a procession of shady characters, including "the terrorist pediatrician," a Cuban exile accused of blowing up one of Castro's airliners and firing a bazooka at ships from the causeway linking Miami to Miami Beach...