Word: powderly
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...lack of proficiency at powder puff politics left my brother and me in constant retreat. We were even desperate enough to try to talk to the correspondents covering the event, a step that the experienced wives were never forced to take. But the society reporter would not talk...
Revolution took on a sort of electronic lightness of being. A crowd of half a million Czechoslovaks in Wenceslas Square would powder into electrons, stream into space at the speed of light, bounce off a satellite and shoot down to recombine in millions of television images around the planet...
...leave the office that she did not have time to unwrap a package that had just been delivered. Hearing the next morning of Robinson's death, she remembered the unopened box and called the sheriff's office, which discovered inside it a bomb made with nails and smokeless powder...
According to investigators, all four bombs appear to have been made with smokeless powder, easily purchased at any gun store, and packed with nails that spray like shrapnel when the devices explode. All were wrapped in brown paper and twine with neatly typed red-bordered labels. All carried plausible return addresses. Three were deposited in mailboxes in Georgia (the fourth had a smudged postmark) with more postage than necessary, apparently so that the sender could avoid a face-to-face transaction with a clerk at a post office counter. The package intended for Vance may have been sent...
...traded its skepticism about Gorbachev's intentions for pessimism about his chances. That leaves the Administration, at least in its own eyes, still stuck with a dilemma about what prudent American policy should be. The strong inclination remains to wait and see, to test, to keep its powder dry and to be ready for someone other than Mikhail Sergeyevich...