Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strangers he may appear a beaten man but his friends marvel at his fortitude and lack of bitterness. Thin-skinned, he has learned to shrug off criticism with a philosophy described as "almost oriental in its calm." No longer do his fingers drum a nervous tattoo on his chair arm or his eyes rove the floor. He talks in a low, steady, less querulous voice. His words are weighted with patient resignation...
When the Supreme Court met last week, Associate Justice Willis Van Deventer appeared with his arm in a sling as the result of rheumatism. Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis did not appear at all because of a bad cold. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes got to his seat on the bench only with great difficulty. His 90 years settled like a dead weight around his shuffling feet and lumbago stooped his black-gowned shoulders low. A strong steady hand from Chief Justice Hughes finally got him up the steps to the bench, steered him to his high-backed black leather...
...churches support both conventions equally, that it memorialized the Northerners for reunion. This, a matter for committee consideration, is not likely to result in any organic union, is at least certain to be a lengthy business. But it resulted in the two leading Northern and Southern brothers going off, arm-in-arm, to barnstorm for friendliness...
...Clerk Werkheiser, had heard the men arguing. He saw Werkheiser start opening one of the packages. . . . That was the last he knew until he found himself, in an agony of mortal pain and bloody numbness, being trundled out of the post office on a hand truck. Clerk Werkheiser, an arm and a leg blown away, was being trundled out on another truck. The post office was a wreck? bundles, letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details of what had happened before they died. Three other clerks...
Turning to foreign affairs Premier Molotov said that the coming Disarmament Conference (see p. 7) "will be an Armament Conference, each nation striving to disarm its rivals and to obtain a free hand to arm itself...