Word: arme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major reason is that the strong-arm government of President Marcos Perez Jimenez, bent on buying popularity through a spectacular splurge in roads, schools and public housing, is pouring out even more than its whopping oil income of about $600 million a year. Selling new concessions is a way to get plenty of quick cash. With oilmen flying south on nearly every plane, and with the likes of Texas' Multimillionaire Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison settling down in Caracas' Hotel Tamanaco, the Gaceta Oficial will probably print a lot more exciting news in coming months...
...Have We Done Enough?" Aboard the plane. Stevenson donned horn-rimmed glasses and busily worked over speech drafts while Estes sucked at a cigar, still in its wrapper, then put on his black eyeshade and slippers, threw his long legs across an arm rest and slept...
Author Kendall tries to fill in the vacuum by suggesting that puny Richard practiced swordsmanship so vigorously that his right arm and shoulder developed at the expense of his left, making him seem "crookback'd." What is certain is that at the age of 18 he was a trusted general and led a flank of his brother's army against the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet. (Author Kendall's maps show modern landmarks so the reader can picture Warwick driving south across the "Golf Links.") But only with the sudden death of Edward...
After LaMarca told his story, police and federal agents moved out to seek corroboration. Lined up an arm's length apart, 60 searchers began their slow walk through the thicket. After an hour FBI Agent J. Robert Boger, on his hands and knees in the underbrush, caught the glint of a safety pin. He groped again through a mass of brush and vines, found fragments of clothing, then found what Nassau County's medical examiner later identified as "the remains of an infant child...
...flattering slickness. Yet its virtues far outweigh its faults. The Walnut Street backdrop gives a fresh-air feeling to what would otherwise be a Vulcan's cave. The young apprentice nicely complements Lyon's robust maturity. His big feet spread and firmly planted, his heavy arm and hand holding the hammer with negligent authority. Blacksmith Pat Lyon himself easily dominates the huge canvas. He seems truly at home in it-as the workingman has long since come to be in the nation...