Word: arme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some degree the conflict has destroyed Egyptian military potential. Egypt's air force has been practically annihilated, and many of her tanks and other armaments have been destroyed, they reported. Furthermore, they stated, Egypt probably realizes now that Israel will not sit meekly by while the Arab states arm for her destruction...
...this point, Stone made his immortal statement: "I won't do it (the drive) if I'm told what to do with my money." The Council raised its lethargic head as Merom Brachman '58 fired back that Stone's Combined Charities was merely the fund-gathering arm of the Council, and therefore the decision about how the money should be spent was the Council's to make. Summoning courage, Edward M. Abrahamson '57, Council president, pronounced, "You are both right and equally right." The Council now moved on to the next point, though no one noticed particularly what...
...Hungary, the darkest arm of the crisis, the President's best advocate was the Red army, whose conduct provoked violent anti-Communist reaction from El Salvador to Saigon (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. pressed hard for withdrawal of Soviet troops and a U.N. investigation, won a 50-8 approval. Aware that he could not help the rebels militarily without increasing the threat of a bigger war, the President ordered, as a heartfelt gesture, that 5,000 Hungarian refugees be admitted to the U.S. without regard to the niceties...
...getting ready to milk his cows when a group of neighbors approached him for the first time since his excommunication. Before he knew what was happening, four of them had laid him flat on the stone floor before the milk shed. A woman shoved a hypodermic into his left arm. Adin soon lost consciousness, and was driven across the state line to Philhaven, another Mennonite mental hospital in Lebanon, Pa. No outsider might have known anything about it if a passerby had not chanced to see Adin's brethren loading his limp body into the station wagon. Several days...
...devoted married pair. During the long periods when Mary was sane, brother and sister wrote together (Tales from Shakespeare), and wined and dined almost every great literary figure of the day. When Mary showed signs of a fresh mad fit, they set off resolutely to the asylum together, walking arm in arm, weeping, and carrying Mary's straitjacket...