Word: arme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Equally notable is the disastrous rendition of the old music hall song Anne Boleyn ("With 'er 'ead tucked underneath 'er arm, She walks the London tower.") The Dunces have arranged the tune beyond recognition, and do not get the words across as well as they might...
...Democratic Representative Mendel Rivers to Republican Nixon. And then, to President Eisenhower: "Didn't he do a wonderful job?" Pennsylvania's Republican Representative James Fulton shouted to Mrs. Nixon: "How about a kiss for the President, Pat?" The President ducked away, grinning, lifting a shielding arm: "Dick is here, and Dick still carries a wallop." On a temporary speaker's stand, President Eisenhower nudged Pat Nixon, pointed to one of the dozens of placards bobbing above the crowd. Its legend: "Viva la Blond...
...twenty-five years some old Harvard grad, vintage '58, will putter about his library until he finds a musty purple volume on the bottom shelf of a bookcase. He will flip a few pages, and then, with an arm about his son and a finger next to his picture, the old grad will declare, "By gum, there's your...
Wright found his site the Wright way. Circling in over Baghdad by airplane, he spotted a long narrow island in the middle of the Tigris. He discovered that it was royal property, went straight to King Feisal II. Recounts Wright: "The young king took me by the arm, smiled and said, 'It is yours.' " Unimpressed by its popular name, Pig Island, Wright promptly rechristened it Edena (for the Garden of Eden). He soon noted an unancient problem: newly prosperous Baghdad is rapidly filling up with automobiles. His solution is in the earthen ziggurats that Harun al-Rashid used...
...pacifists and blue arm-band wearers suffer from a serious confusion of values and goals. War is, of course, both morally and politically undesirable, and so is the arms race. But war is not, as Captain Bigelow '29 of the Golden Rule stated, "morally impossible...