Word: arme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ceiling Unlimited. But all great powers find themselves helplessly engaged in a kind of no-ceiling poker game in which each feels obliged to arm itself not only against its opponents' existing weapons but also against every Flash Gordon device that the opposition might conceivably develop. Every nation is thus alarmed by the ballooning of arms costs. Harold Macmillan, returning last winter from Moscow, found arms budgets the chief subject on Khrushchev's mind...
...foundation, suffered nothing worse than a fractured and permanently stiffened left elbow. A natural southpaw, he had to learn to write with his right hand; but he played left-handed tennis well enough to star on his high school team and make the varsity at Yale. Despite his damaged arm, he enlisted in the Army in 1918, lying about his age to get in, won a field-artillery commission at 17 (the war ended before he got overseas...
Invited Guests. Both assessments were the product of the big new role that the U.S. has quietly begun to play in the hitherto chaotic affairs of Haiti. President François Duvalier invited the U.S. in. Caught between two strong-arm neighbors -Cuba's Fidel Castro and the Dominican Republic's Rafael Truiillo-Duvalier talked enviously of "Jamaica and Puerto Rico, whose political destinies are stabilized by larger countries." The President frankly described his own bureaucracy as "incompetent...
...Sessions Court on charges of tampering with boxing. He had made a career of slipping the law's punches. Back in 1930 he had served less than a year for manslaughter, but over the years he had beaten five raps for murder. At 55, boxing's strong arm looked like a tired old man. His face was drawn, and he was suffering from diabetes. Even elevator shoes failed to give his 5-ft. 8-in. figure any stature...
...Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The ultimate in spectator sports, Perilous Assignment lets the arm chair adventurer sit in on a mountain-climbing class conducted by French Guide Gaston Rebuffat...