Word: armored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onslaught against Phnom-Penh was in sharp contrast to a round of skirmishing centered in the Parrot's Beak border area a year ago. In that fighting, Vietnamese forces attempted to halt Khmer Rouge raids across the border. But the Vietnamese were battered by the tough Khmer. Vietnamese armor, which was sent to harass the Khmer, ran out of gas and had to be rescued by Vietnamese airmen flying captured American planes...
...motto on Milo Smith's office wall reads: "She who waits for the knight in shining armor must clean up after his horse." Widowed nine years ago at 47, she went back to college "to get another piece of paper." At 50, she was told she was unemployable. "They said I should go to the welfare office, that my new degree was worthless because of lack of recent work experience...
Also boosting effectiveness are the 15 additional KC-135 Stratotankers to be sent to Europe next year, which permit more U.S. warplanes to stay aloft longer. Greater firepower. The two U.S. armored cavalry regiments stationed on the East German border have been replacing their aging Sheridan tanks with factory-fresh M60s. These fire faster and more accurately than the Sheridans and carry the latest night-fighting devices. U.S. antitank capability has been bolstered by ten helicopter companies, each with 21 new Cobras, armed with the TOW missile. U.S. ground forces are receiving extra field guns and a new multipurpose artillery...
...chorus, playing medieval instruments. Luchini is more a suggestion of a knight than a knight himself. With a receding chin, concave chest, and dangling, half-open mouth, he looks as if he would be afraid to kill a mouse with a trap, much less joust with a man in armor. The sets are also symbolic, rather than realistic-sculptured trees, cardboard castles, painted skies-and they have the strange beauty of a Dali painting. But the beauty quickly palls. Rohmer's films have always been an acquired and sometimes peculiar taste, like snails. Even for diehards, however, Perceval...
...decible level. Danehy has been leading the fight against the MBTA since it started and he maintains that the MBTA is out to force this project on the Cambridge community, any way it can. Cambridge is his lifelong home and Danehy pictures himself as the knight in shining armor, come to save the innocent maiden. Like others, the mayor can perceive the long-term advantages that extension offers but he hesitates to sanction the "destruction of Mass. Ave. for five years or more...