Word: vesting
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...office, Fox heard a pop and felt a round hit his bulletproof chest plate. Fox returned fire on a man in a blue shirt and jeans in the middle of the street, then took cover behind a silver Oldsmobile. The bullet had hit the smoke grenade on Fox's vest, and gray plumes were spraying into his face. The squad opened up on the gunman. His RPK machine gun dropped to the ground, and he collapsed in the street. The wounded gunman was still alive and quietly repeating in Arabic, "God is great...
...children emerged from the building. Almost immediately, Kalashnikov fire erupted from several surrounding buildings, including the roof of a nearby school. The troops called for backup vehicles and returned fire but failed to quell the shooting. One soldier was hit in the back; the bullet went through his ceramic vest, ripping his shirt but failing to pierce the skin. The unit's bloodhound wasn't so lucky: it had to be evacuated after taking a bullet...
Along with MIT President Charles M. Vest, Summers discussed how to stimulate the state’s biotech industry and to foster a bustling university-industry collaboration along the lines of Northern California’s Silicon Valley to an audience at the Business School’s Hawes Hall...
STOCKHOLM To brighten the northern skies, Swedes are turning to '60s Technicolor trends such as Pucci's signature-print down vest, right, and Marc Jacobs' Courreges-inspired miniskirts...
...took a little while for Philadelphia to accept a man who walks around in buckle shoes, white stockings, a frilly white shirt and a red vest, with a gold pocket watch and a postal bag adorned with a perfectly forged Franklin signature--just one of eight complete outfits--but it did. "My first day here, a bag lady looked at me and said, 'Weirdo,'" Archbold says over breakfast at the Cosi sandwich shop after talking to one of the many homeless people who know him. "You have hit a new level of weirdo when a bag lady is calling...