Word: phalanxes
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...Yeah, but they've got the state of the art anti-missile defense system, the Phalanx. Completely automatic. Safe as can be. And frankly, well, these Exocets make a lot of noise, but they don't always go off." He brought the plane down to wavetop level and, with an impressive wooshing of flames and superheated gas, let the missile...
With his wife by his side and a phalanx of cameras clicking, the shy Hartpence boy who changed his name while attending Yale Law School in 1961 spoke tearfully about his home and his parents. In the past Hart has been reluctant to discuss his stern upbringing in the Church of the Nazarene or the fact that his family lived in 16 homes over 18 years. This time he compared his childhood with the uncomplicated lives of the kids on TV's Happy Days. Yet he stumbled when a fourth-grader asked him if he would ever return to live...
...years ago, in a move admittedly designed to provoke liberals more than enhance campus debate, the Conservative Club brought a South African official to Cambridge. The strategy worked, as a raucous mob of students assembled outside Lowell House and prevented the consul from leaving the campus. It took a phalanx of policemen and a decoy to maneuver the consul from the house...
...metal shields lined up in eight-deep rows at the foot of the Mendiola Bridge, the main approach to the palace. Two water cannons and eight fire trucks pulled up as well, and a contingent of Philippine marines, on temporary security duty at Malacanang, deployed behind the police phalanx...
...news footage looks like a quaint relic, but not very long ago it had the immediacy of the evening news. Six hundred demonstrators are crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma at the start of a planned march to Montgomery, Alabama's capital. A phalanx of state troopers bars the way. The two lines converge; people fall to the ground, tear gas explodes, billy clubs...