Word: swats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charm of the city's professional athletic assemblages, which have shown an unparalleled ability to lurch from crisis to crisis in a manner reminiscent of the country's foreign policy makers. More likely, you, too, will fall prey to the lure of the Green Monster and the Sirens of Swat...
...moment, American special units are still spending most of their time learning about Viet Nam-style field tactics. Their sophistication about international terrorism is less than that of the SWAT units in major city police departments. Terrorism is the war of the 1980s. David E. Steele Los Angeles
...part of Roman life as the traffic. In addition, Moravia benefits from the special relationship European authors have with their readers. Strangers greet him on the street, and journalists constantly seek his opinions. At 72 he still considers himself one of Rome's foremost "emergency intellectuals," a cultural SWAT team always ready to sign a petition, write protest letters or give interviews for liberal causes...
...special SWAT team training in the mountains since early 1978. The agents tote high-powered rifles, wear white camouflage suits and travel on skis along the trails on Whiteface Mountain, where the alpine events will take place. The sight of the team whooshing across a hillside recalls nothing so much as the whiter war in Finland during the Soviet invasion of 1939. Says Fell: "I hope security is not so tight that people won't enjoy themselves...
...crudity. Last year some guests showed up at the ball dressed as hemorrhoids when President Carter was so afflicted; two years before, when the masque theme was "The Father of Our Country," a number of Lake Shore socialites appeared as penises or sperm. No one proposes calling out a SWAT team to deal with this sort of whoopee-cushion wit. It is not sullenly antisocial, like the blaring radios the size of steamer trunks that adolescents haul onto public buses to cook up a small pot of community rage, or the occasional pistols that got waved in gas lines...