Word: arm-in-arm
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While an Indian quintet wailed the rhythm, a squaw named Evening Star one afternoon last week led a new brave named Eagle Chief arm-in-arm through a dance in the Great Falls, Mont. airport lobby. Eagle Chief, off the reservation, is New York's Governor Averell Harriman; the shuffles and wails were convincing demonstration that Harriman had sloughed off his "not active" role to hit the campaign warpath with all its handshaking, speechmaking, political backslapping and Indian ceremonials...
...good terms with everybody," to realize that henceforth she belonged only to Freud and must invariably take his side. He rebuked her for having gone "aside to pull up your stockings" while they were taking a walk, and refused her permission to ice-skate ("It might necessitate being arm-in-arm with another man"). When she met his domineering demands with amiable tact, Freud became enraged. Martha must learn, he insisted, that "sparing each other can only lead to estrangement." Every disagreement must be probed, dissected and fought out to the bitter...
...quickly over. Winston Churchill signed as principal witness; Anthony kissed Clarissa, and arm-in-arm, the Edens set off down the seedy red carpet that stretched the length of a church aisle into cheering Caxton Street. Suddenly Anthony, pacing solemnly with Clarissa on his right arm, pulled up short and asked the bridegroom's perennial question: "Am I on the right side?" Clarissa didn't know; nor did Uncle Winston, who rumbled: "I am no expert in these matters." But the registrar saved the day. He switched Clarissa to her husband's left arm...
...Coast with Jean Hagen? The film never recovers from this odd digression, and Meeker's eventual cure is accomplished with Hollywood mirrors: in a tropical downpour, he saves his nephew's life, clears up his war neurosis in a brisk man-to-man chat with Whitmore, and, arm-in-arm with Jean, walks happily into the rainswept night...
...academic standards at the same time, to prepare a man for life and General Electric, to promulgate ideas and Alumni Bulletins. Working at cross-proposes with itself, the College has been losing the battle of the books since the war ended. Both faculty and administration, shoulder-to-shoulder, arm-in-arm, have been "walking reluctantly backward into the future...