Word: armed
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...addition to the best pitching arm on the staff, Muhlstock also carried one of the biggest bats, as he posted a .344 average last spring...
...bulk of the milk industry's contributions to Nixon came from AMPI which is based in San Antonio. Besides acting as a wholesaler, the cooperative operates a political arm called the Committee for Thorough Agricultural Political Education. It contributes to politicians' campaigns and lobbies in Washington and state capitals for measures helpful to AMPI members. The cooperative has assets of $170 million and represents 40,000 big and small milk producers in 22 states, mostly in the Midwest...
...producers' campaign contributions, they have not abandoned money as a way of winning friends. Last week the Common Cause citizens' lobby reported that special interest groups have $14.2 million to contribute to congressional campaigns this fall. At the top of the list was AMPI'S political arm with $1.4 million. It was followed by nine maritime-related groups and unions, totaling $1 million; the United Automobile Workers, $717,000; and the American Medical Association and related groups, $889,000. Declared Fred Wertheimer, director of Common Cause's campaign-finance monitoring project: "Anyone who thinks the Watergate...
...ambition and energy that had not been apparent during a boyhood largely spent riding horseback in the California countryside. By 1904 Steffens was one of the nation's best-known journalists. The Shame of the Cities, a book based on his exposes of big-city corruption, helped arm the short-lived reform movement whose grinning figurehead was Theodore Roosevelt. "The man with the muckrake" is what T.R. (borrowing from Pilgrim's Progress) called Steffens, thus giving generations of crossword-puzzle workers the nine-letter word muckraker...
Visibly frightened, she stayed within the protective circle of Di Stefano's arm...