pixie v.— «The security started putting up fences between the camps with razor wire. You could lose your finger on it. We started resisting, they started arresting us. Soon the security started conniving with the police to help beat us so...
wire brush treatment n.— «His “snowflake memos” are notorious within the Pentagon, as is his combative style of debating and discussing issues. Civilians and military personnel refer to it as getting “the wire brush...
damming warrant n.— «Napolitano said a practice known as “damming warrants” has resulted in the state seizing $15 million in the last year from 12,400 wire transfers. The name comes from the procedure which allows state...
yo-yoing n.— «The defendants use a technique called “yo-yoing,” wherein one bulldozer sits on a level surface at the top of the hillside.…and the other bulldozer which pushes the tress and brush down the steep hillside...
rain iron v. phr.— «Though surrounded by sandbags piled 5 feet high, they offer little safety from a direct hit by a rocket or mortar, which are lobbed over the wire nightly. “Raining iron,” the soldiers call it, and smile...
pucker v.— «“No matter how many times you do it, you still pucker once you get over the wire,” says one of the helicopter’s pilots, Chief Warrant Officer Lance Duensing.» —“The Doctors of War” by Bob Drury Men’s...