Word: anvils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governor of Guanabara he has built schools, modernized hospitals, cleared slums and lured foreign investment to his state. But his strongest talent is for violent political warfare. "Carlos Lacerda," says his longtime friend, former Bahia Governor Juracy Magalhāes, "is a man who cannot live without an anvil to hammer...
...Seasons), foreshortens but does not falsify the story as Lawrence told it. Sent to Arabia to scout the forces rising in revolt against Constantinople, Lieutenant Lawrence (O'Toole) impetuously leads a party of picked men across a notoriously impassable waste that is known as "the sun's anvil," and seizes the seaward-sighted cannon of Aqaba from the rear. Stunned, the Turkish garrison surrenders. Startled, General Allenby (Hawkins) offers the young hothead guns and gold, and before long Lawrence and his Arabs are blowing up Turkish trains and garrisons from Medina to Damascus. Then Allenby strikes north from...
...plenty healthy, but still not in decent shape," says Alph Stamphill, an elementary school principal in charge of the city's program. "There's one eleven-year-old boy who weighs about 200 lbs. and is so strong he could cart off an anvil under each arm. But he can't hoist himself up to the chinning...
...have had the advantage of the scholar's education. "1 ask you to give to the service of our country the critical faculties which society has helped develop in you here. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, 'whether you will be an anvil or a hammer,' whether you will give the United States, in which you were educated, the broadest benefits of that education...
...Whoever will not be the hammer will in history be the anvil . . . The sword was always the precursor of the plow, and if one speaks at all of human rights, then war deserves in this single case the highest right . . . Every healthy folk sees in the acquisition of territory nothing sinful but something natural...