Word: maces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William and Vivian Mace...
...cruise is small (a typical model is about 20 ft. long and 20 in. in diameter) and relatively cheap (well under $1 million each). Different versions have been successfully test-fired from submerged submarines, surface ships and B-52 bombers. Most earlier versions of the cruise-such as the Mace, the Snark and Regulus I-were primarily tactical weapons. Technological advances in recent years have given their successors, the Navy's Tomahawk and the Air Force's ALCM, a powerful, strategic wallop. Guided by miniaturized computers and powered by tiny jet engines, these low-flying cruises have ranges...
Defense and prosecution witnesses testified Saturday that state troopers and 20 officers from five area neighborhoods, equipped with dogs, riot helmets, sticks and mace, were dispatched to the site following the complaint...
...five huge fans whirled lazily overhead, the mace-bearing sergeant at arms stomped into Georgetown's 19th century House of Assembly to declare the presence of the Speaker of Guyana's Parliament. Opening last week's regular session on the eve of the former British colony's tenth anniversary of independence, the Speaker then interrupted a droning debate about a pension scheme, with a notable announcement: after a three-year boycott, the opposition People's Progressive Party, led by dedicated Marxist Cheddi Jagan, had agreed to take its seats in Parliament. The return...
...changed the entire flavor of his character-a bounty hunter called Robert E. Lee Clayton-inventing a deadly hand weapon resembling both a harpoon and a mace that he uses to kill. "I always wondered why in the history of lethal weapons no one invented that particular one. It appealed to me because I used to be very expert at knife throwing...