Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told the Chancellor we French had his own words of hostility toward France in his book, Mein Kampj, which the Germans regard as a sort of bible, and that he had never made the slightest rectification. Hitler pondered a moment, then placed his hand on my arm. He said: You wish me to correct my book, like an author preparing a new edition. I am not an author, but a political man. I am rectifying those statements daily in my foreign policy, which extends amicability towards France. If I succeed in achieving a Franco-German rapprochement, that would...
...women worked like demons night & day, flinging themselves into the air, jumping frogwise, stomping, crouching, twisting their torsos. All were barefoot, wore scant jersey tops, long trailing skirts. On a chaise longue sat their director, an alert, thin, ashen-faced woman who stopped them abruptly when Anita's arm was too high or Bonnie's feet too far apart. The Martha Graham dancers were rehearsing for one of their periodic Manhattan recitals. Their leader had more in store. This week she was to start on a transcontinental tour, as the foremost exponent of the modern U. S. dance...
...Lowell power plant one freezing midnight, the cab of a traveling crane operated by one John McCoy, 47, fell, landed on a steel girder 50 feet above the ground. John McCoy, finding his right arm vised between the girder and the roof of his cab, let out a yell that brought firemen, a priest and a doctor...
...Norman Gillmor Long, 32, climbed to the cab on the girder, clung precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled...
...Administration to prevent the public from hearing authoritative criticism. Any person who has access to the truth and tries to inform the people or the Congress of the United States about it is quickly removed from the scene by Roosevelt, or the men who do his strong-arm work for him. No doubt if Major General Hagood continues to criticize the Administration, his reputation will be vilified, just as have the reputations of all those who have opposed the New Deal...