Word: depotism
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...first visit to Plains two years ago, the town was mostly elated at its sudden fame. The nine old brick stores on Main Street, some disused for years, had opened hastily with a limited stock of Carter souvenirs, all relentlessly featuring peanuts and grinning teeth. The railroad depot, which had been campaign headquarters, was a welcoming center that offered the admirably unpredictable Miss Lillian for several hours each day of autographs and bracingly candid talk with the few bellwether tourists...
Thatcher was reflecting growing resentment in the British electorate that has at times flared into violence. Picketing truck drivers were assaulted at a chocolate factory in Birmingham last week by a phalanx of umbrella-wielding female workers. At an oil depot in Aberdeen, a striker was accidentally run over and killed when a truck driver refused to halt for pickets...
...Consequently, excite continual wars, not only in Turkey but in Persia. Establish dockyards on the Black Sea . . . In the decadence of Persia, penetrate as far as the Persian Gulf, re-establish if it be possible the ancient commerce with the Levant, advance as far as India, which is the depot of the world. Arrived at this point, we shall no longer have need of England's gold." Or, one might add today, of anyone else...
...decided to get off in Albuquerque, N.M. The bus rolled in just before midnight, two days out of Port Authority, and although the local buses had stopped running, I figured I could walk out of town and camp out. Wrong. It is about seven miles, uphill, from the bus depot to the western edge of town, a high flat plateau, or ten miles east to the base of the Sandias mountain range...
...losses Syria suffered in the 1973 war (7,000 men, 600 tanks and 165 aircraft), the 230,000-man army has been rebuilt and re-equipped by the Soviets, with the help of 2,000 to 3,000 Russian advisers. "The Soviets have turned Syria into a huge weapons depot," says one Western military analyst. "But it's an embarrassment of outdated hardware. This means that the Syrian army's combat capability is very inefficient. About all they can do is defend...