Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month, Harvard Real Estate, the University's property management arm, bought a condominium from one faculty member so that another professor could buy it days later. In so doing, Harvard breeched its 1975 promise not to purchase real estate outside its own self-imposed boundaries and revealed its unfortunate willingness to sacrifice its credibility with the Cambridge community for small, short lived gains...
Common explanations offered by arm chair geneticists included "watching too much television," "studying too hard," and "smoking too much dope." But Dougherty said the presence of toxic chemicals in the environment--not in rolling paper--was part of the reason for the decline...
...wreckage. The soldiers who had survived staggered around and some opened fire across the Lough at two young men whom they apparently took to be the bombers. The tragedy of Narrow Water was now complete. The two were merely gawking at what had happened. One was shot in the arm; the other was killed. In addition, 18 soldiers, including Blair, had died -the largest number of British troops lost in a single incident in Ulster...
...Nehru, at Belgrade in 1961, the so-called nonaligned movement has usually espoused a form of neutrality with a distinctly leftist flavor. The rhetoric has sputtered with buzz words like "anticolonialist" and "progressive." But official pronouncements increasingly have also been careful to try to keep both superpowers at haughty arm's length with even-handed warnings against Soviet "manipulation" as well as U.S. "imperialism...
...unconvinced. Determined to talk to Vlasova in a place "where she could see for herself that she is free to go or stay," as McHenry put it, the State Department proposed that she be interviewed in a room adjacent to the plane. This request was also refused. "Such strong-arm tactics," said Schell, would hardly be necessary if Vlasova were genuinely willing to leave...