Word: arme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individual security in the times of the Communist cold war. There was praise and there was criticism for the Supreme Court (see below), but the great fact was that the debate went on within legal framework in essentially legal terms. "The Communists declare that the court is an arm of the political system," a Texas law-school dean noted of the Supreme Court's decisions. "If that ever happens, justice under law is gone...
Gloomily, many Italian moderates concluded that the photograph for which Giovanni Gronchi was waiting was a jolly group shot of the Christian Democrats and Nenni Socialists arm in arm, singing Carry Us Back to Neo-Atlantism...
Helpless Minister. There were Frenchmen in Algiers who risked their lives to save Moslems. During one struggle, a middleaged, bespectacled Frenchman broke through a crowd of young hoodlums, put his arm around a bleeding Moslem, and amid jeers and threats led him away. In the center of the city another crowd, storming through the streets, was stopped by a paratroop colonel. "Our fight here must be dignified and worthy!" shouted the colonel. "Go home quietly." The crowd cheered him, broke into the Marseillaise, then went on rioting. Sitting in his office in the gleaming white government building, Minister Resident Robert...
...buying $5, $10 and $100 "bonds." Among workingmen, there is a brisk trade in $1 bonds. Businessmen arrange shipments of supplies to Castro. When the government reportedly purchased five rebel-tracking bloodhounds, Oriente resistance members scornfully loosed a pack of mongrels on the streets, each wearing a Castro arm band on a front...
Playhouse 90's version of Clifford Odets' "trio play," Clash by Night, was mostly a triumph of mien over message. When he wrote the play (a Broadway flop in 1942), Odets said he was trying to show "how men irresponsibly wait for the voice and strong arm of Authority to bring them to life and to shape ... So can come Fascism to a whole race of people." But TV Adapter William F. Durkee Jr. chose to tread the simpler level of the story-the interplay between a clod husband, a deceitful lodger, and a restive wife who dreams...