Word: armor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This war is hard to find; it flares and fades. Some time ago, I watched the biggest fight yet, sparked by the Fatah from a safe spot in a Muslim cemetery near Jericho. Through binoculars, there was a grandstand view of Jordanian artillery pounding Israeli armor. To get around Israeli military censorship, we devised a code with a friendly kibbutznik in a strategically located collective farm by the Jordan, who phoned us tips. 'Birds' were Israeli bombers, 'eggs' were bombs...
...aptitude for multiple delivery was what brought the armadillo to the attention of University of Texas Biochemist Roger Williams. The tough, armor-plated animal offered him a chance to check the theory that there is something in a fertilized egg cell besides genes that influences an animal's inherited characteristics...
...relevant surface patterning is a Mirko specialty. Sometimes the pattern relates to the material, but it is most interesting when it connects with the subject. In one soldier-type piece, Mirko gives the surface a reptilian pattern which suggests armor without duplicating it. Signs also appear on his surfaces--"from the blood, from ancestral things...
...Obviously Serkin likes this noble battle plan for piano and orchestra. Previously, he recorded it with Fritz Reiner, George Szell, and with Eugene Ormandy. Now he's back again with Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra. Few other scores so perfectly show off Serkin's heroic style, his armor-plated technique, and his by now infallible sense of just when to charge Brahms' craggy, imperial peaks...
...depleted ranks of the Fourth at this late stage in the conflict. Guerrilla warfare may be the way out, he thinks. "If the towns are taken, we will go into the bush," he says. "We could do the job. But we must have weapons. We don't need armor. We need trucks. We don't need much air. But spotter planes would be useful...