Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hockey players may wear pads, but not bulletproof vests. Taking a slap shot in the chest hurts a little more than, say, receiving a slap on the wrist...
...students was demonstrating against the election. He worked hard to keep his campaign image of the ordinary man, urging a delegation of garbage collectors to call him Mister instead of the customary Your Excellency. But his ultimate sacrifice may have been giving up the traditional presidential vehicle, a bulletproof Cadillac, in favor of the far more modest Korean-made Grandeur sedan...
...shaken by the twelve-hour wrangle that he considered pulling out of the contest. He feared not only that he could not unite blacks but that the rising emotions might turn violent. Five aldermen supporting Sawyer said they had received death threats; at least one wore a bulletproof vest during the wild debate. But after asking ministers to pray with him in an upstairs office, Sawyer decided to stay in the race. He got the votes of six black aldermen, including himself, and 23 whites. Evans' 19 votes came from eleven blacks, four Hispanics and four reform-minded whites...
...government already has them. "We've run a miserable campaign," conceded a prime-ministerial colleague. One factor was the heavy security for the Prime Minister, the target of recent threats by the Irish Republican Army. She has been surrounded by plainclothes police in bulletproof vests, and her schedule has been kept secret until the last moment...
Frail-looking but alert, Barbie, 73, was led out of the bulletproof, glass- screened dock at Lyons' Palace of Justice. As rooftop sharpshooters stood at the ready, he was driven in a heavily guarded motorcade back to his quarters at St. Joseph Prison, a short distance from the site of his former Gestapo offices. In recent days Barbie had reportedly been weighing whether to exert his right under French law to stay away from the trial, which he denigrated as a "lynching campaign led by the French media." The tactic is not unprecedented. Last February, Lebanese Terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah...