Word: tomahawk
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Gorbachev's first phase would also include an agreement for "elimination" of U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range missiles from the "European zone." At first glance that looks like Reagan's zero option: no U.S. missiles in Western Europe (the U.S. is deploying 108 Pershing II ballistic and 464 Tomahawk cruise missiles in five countries); no Soviet missiles targeted on Western Europe (Moscow has more than 250 mobile, triple-warhead SS-20s in place). Up until last week, the Soviets insisted on keeping enough SS-20s (roughly 140) to equal the number of missiles in the independent British and French nuclear...
Florida State made it on for inventing the crowd-rousing and at-times maddening Tomahawk Chop...
...them, simply just shouts of “You suck” with a modicum of truth behind them—I’m glad GQ has decided that they’re on the level of the racial and cultural oppression invoked with every swing of the Tomahawk Chop...
Consider, first, ChrisRix.com. Florida States’ oft-maligned quarterback Chris Rix wins the prize for the greatest collegiate personal website I’ve ever seen. The fancy front page alone might be enough to win such an honor, as the tomahawk chop echoes over a greeting punctuated by Rix’s digital signature, which includes football stitches down the “C” in “Chris” and an “i” dotted with the crucifix. The first section of the website is devoted to Rix?...
Another classic moment that Carson's eulogizers trotted out last week came in 1965 when Ed Ames of Daniel Boone, demonstrating a tomahawk throw, landed his ax squarely in the crotch of a paper target. Carson's greatness was reflected not just in the zinger he came up with--"I didn't even know you were Jewish!"--but in what came before. Watch the playback: he lets the laughter crescendo--five seconds, 10. He knows he has the joke. He knows it will kill. But you cannot have it yet. For a moment, he is keeping it for himself, like...