Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standards in all tests to date. The sticker price is not $1.94 million but $1.1 million, and the M113 costs $180,000, not $80,000. What's more, the vehicle's aluminum armor does not vaporize, incinerate or form a fireball. The armor is not "twice as thick" as the M113's-it measures 1 in., in contrast to 1¾ in. for the M113. Antitank rockets can penetrate steel and aluminum, but aluminum has no additional casualty-producing effect...
...Italian Renaissance. It was developed by Ludovico degli Arrighi, a Vatican chancery scribe, who in 1522 composed the first writing manual for popular use, La Operina. Like much Western writing since antiquity, this simplified italic is written with a broad-edged pen, yielding a pleasing alternation of thick and thin lines, depending on the angle of the stroke. It is also easy to write because it follows the natural movement of the wrist. The writer need only obey the pen to create an even rhythm and beautiful form...
Clarisse is "the painted lady" of the novel, a women so filled with self-doubt that when she coats herself in make-up she appears "grotesquely thick and gleaming," hiding herself behind a veneer of cosmetics. Yet Clarisse emerges as the heroine of the novel as something, perhaps a mutual pity, draws her and Julien together. It begins at the dinner table when "as he leaned to give her a light, and her shimmering fawncolored hair momentarily entered his field of vision, bringing with it a whiff of perfume, Julien discovered with surprise that he desire...
...Bradley is a behemoth, so wide that it cannot readily fit into the standard C-141 military transport plane; it has to be partially disassembled. Its 5½-in.-thick armor adds some protection, but on the battlefield, critics charge, the vehicle would be a death trap. Its width and excessive height (10 ft.) offer an inviting target to enemy gunners. At times it even has to be a stationary target: the Bradley must come to a complete stop to fire its antitank missile. Its 25-mm gun also has a problem: it is said to be highly inaccurate...
...M113s carrying Israeli troops went up in flames in Lebanon. During the invasion, Israeli troops rode on the exposed areas of the M113-not inside it. Since the Bradley is designed for actual combat, it is far more likely to be hit, and since its armor is twice as thick, there is twice as much aluminum to vaporize...