Word: armed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious accidents attests to the careful and responsible driving of College undergraduates, so there is no reason that automobiles should be banned on this basis. However, we are faced with the problem of sufficient parking facilities. Hardly a car now remains that hasn't been touched by the long arm of the University and or Cambridge police...
...arrived at his Lowry Air Force Base office, with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's letter (see Foreign Relations) in a Manila envelope tucked under his arm. After two hours at his desk, much of the time spent in telephone conversation with Washington, he was off again, for Cherry Hills Club. At noon he teed off with "Rip" Arnold, the club...
Rocky swung himself arm-weary trying to tag the elusive stylist, took some jolting punches himself before he cornered his man and battered him senseless. Said Archie when he got his wits back: "I haven't an excuse in the world. Marciano is far and away the strongest man I've encountered. You can avoid him some of the time, but not all of the time." ¶ A few weeks earlier than usual, big-league baseball began its autumn managerial shuffle. After eight years, Lippy Leo Durocher and the New York Giants parted company. Everyone was still friends...
...Mercy by Robert Frost It is several years since The Short War, when the H-bombs knocked the world to chaos. Mankind has by now figured out how to prevent war and even to outwit death; that is, The Company has figured it out. With its globe-circling arm of Underwriters, Actuaries, Claim Adjusters, Regional Directors and Expediters, The Company has figured out almost everything. Blue Plate Policy coupons provide for food; Blue Blanket coverage takes care of shelter, clothing and babies; the Blue Bolt "war and disaster complex of policies" insures against all misfortune-all except for the misfortune...
...Rand, a fashionable Victorian portrait painter and the inventor of the collapsible paint tube, was a fine figure of a man. "He stood an even six feet, four inches; his wife did not quite reach five feet. Fashion decreed that the lady should always take the gentleman's arm, but alas, his was too high to reach. He had to carry a looped handkerchief on his elbow on which she could rest her hand, after the manner of a carriage strap." Author Woodbury, a onetime anthropologist and a ninth-generation descendant of William Goffe, is the present proprietor...