Word: arme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground force and the armament that goes with it. The Army's answer was to lobby hard-on contradictory lines: 1) the world will probably succumb to an atomic stalemate, hence the U.S. will need a conventional army which for maximum efficiency will need its own air arm; 2) the airplane will soon be supplanted by the missile as a strategic weapon, and, therefore, so will the Air Force; 3) the Army should be allowed to develop its own long-range missiles since, after all, missiles are only an improved form of artillery...
...filled for almost 20 years. Sullivan's deal with the Met calls for four more operatic scenes starring such performers as Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi and Dorothy Kirsten. Said he: "We certainly have no plans to change our opera dates. This was just the shot in the arm our show needed because you can always put on the Rosemary Clooneys, the Julius La Rosas and the acrobats...
...Ginger Rogers) for the first time in eight years. Her mother and stepfather (Michael Rennie) sympathetically figure that the hostile, resentful girl is merely a little bundle of misery. The boy next door is less sympathetic. "Am I losing my charge," he wonders aloud, after she holds him at arm's length, "to be turned down by a creep?" In the language of her contemporaries, she is a square who wants to fit into a world that is round. In the end, after her mother and the boy next door smooth off some of the rough edges, she does...
Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, 25, a high-school history teacher from Boston, made no concessions to his gimpy left arm (four inches shorter than the right), tossed the 16-lb. hammer to a new Olympic mark...
...what impressed observers the most was the difference in blocking between the teams on the pass play. When Loucks or Winterbauer went back to throw, their protection was very strong. It was very rare for a Harvard man to be within arm's reach of the passer. This allowed Yale to complete nine of 17 passes for 140 yards...