Word: unraveler
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...been the nemesis of the Israeli air force, the Soviet-built Snapper antitank missile has tormented Israeli armor. With a range of roughly one mile, the Snapper can literally be steered to its target by a gunner who guides a pair of hair-thin wires that unravel from the back of the soaring rocket. It has accounted for most of Israel's nearly 300 tank losses. More conventional but nonetheless effective has been Egypt's use of the Russian T-62 main battle tank. This is the first time that the 36.5-ton tank has operated in combat...
Ward W's regimen is rather like a crash course at Esalen. Privacy, leading as it can to evasions and delusions, is not esteemed. Public confessions are required. Severance admits to "23 years of alcoholic chaos, lost wives, public disgrace," indignities unspeakable, yet spoken. When his fellow patients unravel their histories, Severance listens intently. Few in Ward W can share anything like the scope and depth of his interests, but he must make his peace with them before he can return to his pregnant wife and small daughter...
...only the first time that the newsmen had ever met with Brezhnev but the first time that they had been inside the inner sanctum of Soviet power. In wry allusion to how the Western press sometimes refers to his office, Brezhnev explained that he wanted to help his visitors unravel "the mysterious unknown wafting above the Kremlin...
...crucial to the maintenance of his credibility, may suffer from his vaunted reticence. Cox spent most of the day of his appointment dodging reporters until he could be unveiled at a 5 p.m. press conference, and even then his only comment on the scandal he has been assigned to unravel was that "it seems very, very...
...again--the event passes as quickly as it came. There are hundreds of such vignettes in the book, glimpsed actions, characters scurrying in and out of focus. Pynchon has no great interest in making these fragments cohere; his method is rather to take the loose ends of story and unravel them altogether...