Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 'er 'ead tucked underneath 'er arm...
...Feller (April 19, 1937). On April 24 Cleveland's 18-year-old ace pitcher injured his arm, pitched a few innings on May 18, was idle until the first week in July...
What set Detective Lippmann to brooding on the mystery was a Washington rumor that after Christmas President Roosevelt will declare his intention about a third term. Arousing Amateur Lippmann's well-bred scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods. To ask that the President declare now whether he will or will not run again, said he, is as crude as the third degree; in fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem...
...month; Communist soldiers get $1. The Government charges that the Communists promised to limit their Army to some 45,000 men, but have recruited over 100,000. Communists charge that the Government promised a monthly subsidy of $45,000, has been granting only $30,000. Central Armies have uniform arms; Communists have eight different kinds of rifles, and the Government has given them no artillery, no telephone wire, no heavy machine guns, almost no ammunition. The Government says: Why train and arm a Communist Army just to have it turn on us? Generalissimo Chiang has long been a hater...
While he thought about that, Bill and Torby passed by together, slapped him on the arm. "We're the Old Guard, Tommy. We ought to get together after the game." And Torby laughed...