Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure they found her, her A's under one arm, the Reader's Digest article under the other arm, a persistent virginity between her two children and her two legs, her black patent size seven heels on her two feet, and her father's death through her heart...
...returned to Cambodia two weeks ago from Honolulu, where he had been under treatment for the stroke that immobilized him last February, Premier Lon Nol was still a long way from complete recovery. He seemed weak in body and in spirit, had only limited use of his left arm. dragged his left leg as he walked, and occasionally slurred his words as he spoke. Even so, there was little to foreshadow the crisis that beset Phnom-Penh last week, leaving the government-like Lon Nol himself-in a state of partial paralysis...
...shoebox under my arm contained a tangled reel, a 25? red-and-white bobber and a dozen rusty hooks -the remnants of a summer of bluegill fishing with the children. Anglin' Sam came armed for an amphibious invasion. As he checked out his gear with John Wilhelm Sr., one of Florida's foremost bass fishermen, Sam unpacked armfuls of monogrammed rods and gleaming reels, a stack of Bassmaster magazines and a tackle box as big as a footlocker. Unfolding like a Chinese puzzle, the box was crammed with all kinds of hardware, first-aid supplies, rod cement, hooks...
...performance proved a triumph, demolishing even those reviewers who held the show at arm's length. Walter Kerr in the Times boomed: "Yes, Yes, Alexis! No, No, Follies" Even Curmudgeon John Simon fell for the star at the expense of an early 19th century English clergyman: "Alexis, and not Sydney," he burbled in New York magazine, "is the Smith of Smiths." Says she with the obligatory amount of modesty: "The acclaim is not that important. Listen, how many people's opinions do you really respect? Four or five? More than that is just pleasantry." But it is something more...
...dreamed there was an Emperor Antony," Shakespeare's Cleopatra soliloquizes after his death. "His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres. Think you there was, or might be, such a man as this I dream...