Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arsenal's delivery systems are aging and deteriorating. Next year's proposed defense budget earmarks only $2 million for researching a chemical warhead for a multiple rocket launcher and $4.2 million for maintaining the current U.S. stock of war chemicals. Among them are 888 Weteye gravity bombs containing a nerve agent; last week the Pentagon announced that it will continue storing the weapons at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver despite protests from residents of the area who fear potentially lethal leaks. The Army has been seeking funds for a $170 million plant to manufacture artillery shells containing...
...long-term loan. Recent U.S. beneficiaries of such arrangements include Turkey, which has occupied Cyprus illegally since 1974 (using American arms), and North Yemen. In the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, many have suggested we provide arms to Pakistan, which is currently building an atomic bomb financed by Colonel Qadaffi of Libya...
Strength, credibility and vision would be the hallmarks of Bush's administration's foreign policy, the former ambassador to the United Nations told the capacity crowd, adding that the nation needs the neutron bomb, the B-1 bomber and heavy increases in defense spending...
...blitz, scarred by the violent flames. The child, named Matty in a hospital, is Hell personified, soon to become Golding's "man in black." The author unravels Matty's story slowly, with detours to introduce other sordid children and wicked adults. Fires predominate in Darkness Visible, as a great bomb blast at the end complements Matty's fiery furnace. All of Golding's characters in one way or another are ravaged by these unyielding flames, which serve as bookends for this allegorical tale...
...these years, and she wants them to bear his name. Her moment of triumph is fleeting, however. She discovers that a marriage induced by fraud has no legal standing; she has outwitted only herself and must now leave Domenico's home. But before she goes she plants a bomb under his chair: one of her three boys is also...