Word: gunboat
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...Military-history buffs looking for antique toy soldiers can stop into David Dugas' shop, Le Petit Soldier, also located on Royal Street. There you can shell out anywhere from $20 for a 1930s, 3 1/2-in. papier-mache soldier to $4,500 for a 1930s windup German gunboat...
...road to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and elsewhere is long and difficult. But that road, albeit the one less traveled by, is the only one worth taking. Violence begets only violence, as Arafat should have learned by now. Such gunboat diplomacy is a sad relic of the past; Arafat and his ilk should not be allowed to impose it on the future...
Last weekend, without anyone paying much attention, Gov. George W. Bush trimmed Sen. John S. McCain's (R-Ariz.) 29-delegate advantage to 3 before a single ballot had been cast in a single state. Chalk one up to vestiges of the era of "gunboat diplomacy...
...British had warned Italy not to let the ship sail, and an Italian gunboat prevented its departure. A clever Italian woman, the liaison between the Jews and the Italian government, coerced an Italian admiral into diverting the gunboat...
...Sand Pebbles. Enter 1926 China at the start of the Communist-Nationalist civil war with McQueen (whose sailor-suited Jake Holman may or may not have inspired the Village People to record "In the Navy") getting an appreciative look from a missionary's daughter as he boards his Yankee gunboat. Leave it, three hours and and a lot of great scenery later, with the perfect throat-wrenching closer: "What the hell happened...