Word: weaponeering
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...four novellas that make up Candace Bushnell's 4 Blondes (Atlantic Monthly Press; 245 pages; $24) is a former model and "lukewarm" celebrity with "the kind of hair that made people look twice" and "a soft, girlish voice that despite her stunning face and figure...was really her secret weapon." But behind the white teeth and fake breasts is a woman in turmoil. In her early 30s, she is single, past her modeling prime and afflicted with a seasonal disorder that each spring compels her to seek a wealthy bachelor in whose Hamptons home she can spend the summer, only...
...invention of the stirrup--enabling armored knights to fight on horseback--changed history. The modem has done much the same thing. It has supplied millions with a weapon that allows them to fire instantaneous opinions through the air like tracer bullets and thus engage in daily cultural warfare on a scale never seen before in history...
George, who is quickly becoming Harvard's most lethal weapon, notched his second goal of the season. His two goals account for half of the Crimson's total offensive production for the year...
...Kosovo [mission]," Col. John Morgan III concluded in a report released Monday at the Pentagon. "In [this] environment, the unit's overly aggressive tendencies were manifested in practices such as the unit slogan, 'Shoot 'em in the face,' and their standard operating procedure of pointing the M-4 carbine weapon system with the attached maglight in the face of local nationals in order to illuminate their faces...
...wall, he repeatedly stuck the knife into a table." In a second incident, Serafini unloaded his revolver, walked back into a room and held it to the back of the head of a suspect. "Do you want to die?" he asked. Serafini told investigators he emptied his weapon before he "walked up to the individual and put my weapon to the base of his skull and asked him, `Tell me what you know.' As soon as I said that I realized that I had made a mistake...