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Word: armed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numbered as many as 1,500 veterans, wearing fatigues with the shoulder patches of the 1st Air Cav, the 101st Airborne, the 1st MarDiv, the 25th Infantry, the Big Red One. They wore long hair and beards and medals: Silver Stars, Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts. Some were missing an arm or a leg; some got about in wheelchairs. They carried squirt guns, cap pistols, toy rifles made by Mattel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Protest: A Week Against the War | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...Sure," the ambassador replied, moving people off with a wide waving motion of his tweed-jacketed arm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Galbraith: An Ambassador's Journal | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

...unprecedented move yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony on the Indochina War from five representatives of the Mayday Collective, an organized arm of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collective Hits Congress; Urges Adoption of Treaty | 4/29/1971 | See Source »

...needed some sleep. I was completely exhausted. But sleep came only after I was convinced I had memorized the lawyers' names and the telephone number at St. Augustine's. They were already written on the inside of my left arm, anyway...

Author: By Alan Nelson, | Title: Holy War in the Nation's Capital | 4/24/1971 | See Source »

...deserved protection from a hostile audience and that the threat of one man to assault the stage did not indicate disorder. If anyone was to be arrested, it should have been the angry member of the audience. Black cited testimony which claimed Feiner had exhorted the crowd to go "arm in arm" to a Young Progressives of America meeting, rather than to "rise up in arms" as a majority of the Court held...

Author: By Martin Wishnatsky, | Title: The Sanders Incident and Legal History | 4/21/1971 | See Source »

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