Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political talk in Baltimore was not of the presidential campaign, but the whimsical fate of Mayor William Schaeffer, who stuck his arm out of his car window-and had someone snatch off his $42 wristwatch. Nixon bumper stickers were appearing in Nebraska, but they were vastly outnumbered by bright red NEBRASKA NUMBER ONE signs plugging the university's football team. The big debate in San Francisco was over the attempts of a school dietician to ban graham crackers for milk breaks on the grounds that they stick to tots' teeth and cause cavities...
...bodies were borne off for individual services, 4,000 students demonstrated in Jerusalem's Independence Park. Ma'ariv, Israel's biggest newspaper, said: "We must cut off the arm of terrorism before it is raised to strike us again." Although Rosh Hashana is the nation's heaviest shopping season, stores were generally deserted. The customary greeting of "Shana Tova" (Happy New Year) was passed with ironic emphasis on the "happy...
...divided labor obviously offers much less support to the Democratic nominee than a united labor. Since most of the unions contribute to COPE, the political arm of the AFL-CIO, the McGovern committee has not been able to scrape up enough cash to conduct a registration drive-a traditional element in a Democratic presidential campaign. Nor do they work very comfortably alongside McGovern's operatives. Some labor leaders remain hawks. Says Joe Keenan flatly: "I support the President on the war." McGovern staffers, on the other hand, continue to downplay labor as if they think that they...
...year-old peasant boy is rushed into the emergency room. Half of his left arm has been blown away and the other half is wrapped in a blood-dripping bandage. Three hours earlier, he had been walking his family's water buffalo in an open field when B-52 bombs rained down near...
...birth of a baby girl, a Navajo woman was supposed to find a spider web and to rub it on the child's arm so that her fingers would never tire of weaving. When the girl grew of age, she began weaving between two upright trees, and she created her patterns without any kind of preliminary design. The magic tradition, according to Spider Man's message, "is yours to work with and to use following your own wishes...