Word: bombproofing
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...alpha waves and the bombproof cardiovascular systems are not achieved without cost. Tennis players wreck their elbows and break their Achilles' tendons, but runners, especially when they reach middle age, are creaky with bone spurs, shin splints, knee miseries and bruised heels. Despite layers of foam padding in their expensive Adidas, Puma, Nike and Tiger training shoes, half of the members of a suburban joggers' club will be out of action at any given time...
...trial cost an estimated $15 million, including nearly $7 million for the heavily guarded fortress that was specially built in Stuttgart to hold the defendants and conduct their trial. The building-girded by high steel fences, roofed with bombproof metal mesh and patrolled by policemen and attack dogs -was just one example of judicial overkill. Because of flagrantly injudicious behavior by the main trial judge (who was removed in January) and highly questionable bugging of the defendants and their lawyers during the trial, the verdict is sure to be appealed to higher courts...
...Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint) has written Our Gang, due out in November, starring President Trick E. Dixon, his wife Fitter, Attorney General Malicious, Vice President What's-his-name and others, including Jacqueline Charisma Colossus. In Roth's manically scurrilous satire, Dixon stealthily retires to a bombproof White House locker room during a national crisis and suits up in his "Prissier College" football uniform to bolster his confidence. At times, the mimicry of Nixon's manner and cadences is brilliant. Alternating between the Swiftian and the sophomoric, Roth has Dixon assassinated by drowning in an oversized...
...century now, he has lived with the Bomb, and since the catharsis of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, most Americans have given nuclear Armageddon little thought. A number of big companies, among them Jersey Standard and Shell Oil, went to great expense a few years back to secure bombproof alternate headquarters for use in case of nuclear attack. Now that trend is fading. The Bekins moving company, which recently pitched to more than 60 big California companies a $10 million facility it plans to build ("the most advanced corporate survival center yet designed." says the brochure...
...Amazon jungle, his favorite fish-finding territory, he delights in swimming in piranha-infested rivers just to prove that piranhas (which he sells for $50) are not man-eaters. In fact, about the only place he finds hazardous is the U.S., where he lives in an expensive, theoretically bombproof, glass-and-concrete house on the Jersey shore. There, with unlisted phone numbers and safe from advice-seeking laymen and other "bores," Axelrod can, and does, toss off as many as four T.F.H. booklets over a weekend...