Word: cobras
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...lone moment of courage: I had to go. Outside. I couldn't stop thinking that being picked off by a sniper while taking a leak would be a truly embarrassing way to die. Shortly thereafter, two British tanks moved into the area (now that's relief) and two Cobra helicopters arrived overhead, to cheers from the camp...
...Major Geracci, 35, a flight surgeon, knows that his Cobra attack-helicopter pilots caused some civilian casualties. "All the choppers see when they fly over Nasiriyah are civilians shooting Kalashnikovs out of their windows," says Geracci. "The pilots were talking about blowing up houses the next time they went in. They need to know that the civilians are not fighting against them." But the sound of mortar fire in the distance that night makes it clear that there are plenty of Iraqis out there...
...open an extra King Cobra. I’m going for “54’ 40” or Fight.” Fourteen ounces of malt liquor is a small price to pay for membership in an elite club whose name commemorates our nation’s long, bloody struggle against evil Canadian aggressors...
...bravado of these glorified dolls and their extravagant accessories, they seem woefully unprepared without their gas masks. Sure, some of these action figures are designed for imaginary conflicts. They fight Cobra, an imaginary enemy, who represented the Axis of Evil before that was even a glimmer in President George W. Bush?...
...ricin poisoning, the substance is not suitable for killing on a mass scale. In one of Agatha Christie's earliest detective stories, The House of Lurking Death (1929), the killer put ricin in fig-paste sandwiches and a cocktail glass, claiming three lives. Said to be deadlier than cobra venom, the poison works most effectively when injected or ingested...