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Word: armed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Certainty. Indeed, so universal was the dismay in Republican ranks that it produced a rare concert of behind-the-scenes congressional arm twisting of the White House: on terms virtually dictated to him by the Senate Republican leadership, Nixon approved the appointment of a new special prosecutor, replacing the dismissed Archibald Cox, and chose a new Attorney General to succeed the resigned Elliot Richardson (see stories beginning on page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: The Mystery of the Missing Tapes | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...junior varsity game matches a winless Harvard squad against Princeton's 1-1 team. Offensive success in the contest depends on the arm of Crimson quarterback Doug Gordon and the receiving talents of Tom Hagerty and Dave Dobbs. Gordon can also call on running backs Al Yates and John Flood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V., Frosh Gridders to Battle Tigers | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

CELLIST JANOS STARKER plays with superlative technique: his fingers range the cello fingerboard unerringly while his bow arm sails from one string to another, never straying or accenting incorrectly. But the highlight of Starker's appearance with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Friday night, the Dvorak cello concerto in B minor, demands not only precision but also sensitivity, which the world-renowned cellist was either unwilling or unable to furnish...

Author: By Charlie Shepard, | Title: The Two Faces of Janos | 11/7/1973 | See Source »

...Fearnett and Lawson Wulsin have helped Kidder, as has the new defensive alignment, but he has been successful mostly because he simply plays very well. He reads offensive patterns and cuts off the right angles; he knows when to go out after the ball; he has a fine arm and throws clearing passes well. Most important, he directs traffic from the net and never loses his concentration. In short, he refuses to play stupidly...

Author: By Bruns H. Grayson, | Title: On the Bench | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...there's no release: there are no orgasms to let off the steam, and the violence lashes out like a lizard's tongue--it never changes anything, and the high tension prays relentlessly on an audience. The bursts of voltage are supplied by the setting: a needle in an arm, a siren, a scream, a Fat City sequence of a man waking alone ringing with hangover and dreams burning off fast, shrill urban music--devices like these make up for hours of narrative padding or careful ambience-building. It's a modern movie language...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: The Habits of Cornered Rats | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

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