Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leans out of the train window on arrival and asks, "Is this Transylvania Station?" and is answered by other lines from the same song, "Yes, this is Track 29. Would you like a shoe shine?" The movie is haunted by old ghosts--even Adolf Hitler reappears with a wooden arm and a speech impediment as the village police chief. There is much more thievery for those sharp enough--or old enough--to catch...
...also be frustrating. For instance, he follows his comment that the star system is beginning to break down in some movies "to the artistic advantage of those movies" with a footnote that confesses, "I really don't believe this about movies. I would give my right arm for Tracy, Colbert, Gable and Lamarr in Boom Town...
...come to France to live until he was 18. He graduated from the prestigious National School of Administration, and until Pompidou appointed him Foreign Minister in 1973, he had spent his entire career as a bureaucrat. He is quiet, shakes hands with a stiffness in his right arm from a war wound, and rarely smiles, except for a tight-lipped grin after he has made a clever...
...ankle, accounted for nearly half of all ski fractures. Now, because of stiff plastic boots that protect the ankles, and bindings that release under bone-breaking tensions, such injuries make up only 16% of the total. "The reduction in leg injuries has been bought at the expense of the arm and torso," the doctors say. Twelve years ago, sprained and broken ribs, arms and shoulders were relatively rare among skiers. Since then, sprains have increased fourfold. Arm and shoulder breaks have gone up by a factor of three, rib breaks by a factor of ten. Obviously, the force...
Died. Nickolai G. Kuznetsov, 72, commander of the Soviet navy in World War II. Kuznetsov's advocacy of an aggressive "oceanic" strategy for the Soviet sea arm appealed to Stalin. He quickly rose through the ranks as senior officers were liquidated in the 1937- 38 purges, and became Navy Commissar in 1939 at the age of 37. Kuznetsov embarked on a massive cruiser and battleship building program and restored czarist-style discipline on shipboard, requiring officers to wear bone-handled swords. He mapped the naval strategy used against Finland in 1940, and later led his fleet against the Nazis...