Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forcing American commanders to tighten the rules on confiscating Somali weapons. Until now, the troops have seized arms displayed openly and with hostile intent. Now the U.S. military is promising to take a more aggressive role in ridding Somalia of the heavier weapons and the "technicals" -- gun-equipped pickup trucks -- that have terrified the populace for the past two years. "Heavy weapons will be removed voluntarily or, if necessary, by force," a senior U.S. official told Reuters. "From now on, we're going to be doing more enforcement." That will still leave untold numbers of small arms in the hands...
...than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...
...Baidoa expedition exemplifies the doctrine of invincible force espoused by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell. The weaponry en route to liberate Baidoa from the "technicals" -- pickup trucks mounted with machine guns -- may look excessive, but it is intended to ensure minimal resistance. "You have to use overwhelming force," says Lieut. Colonel Tom O'Leary, the commander of Team Tiger. "That's the only way you can go in smiling and waving...
Hammerman said Sparks grabbed two bags being loaded outside the laboratory and quickly escaped in a blue pickup truck...
...Until women have Friends, someone has to pickup the slack," she says...