Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This search for a reasonable balance is not new. Ever since the days of F.D.R., critics have argued that the regulators are a too independent, too powerful and too free-spending fourth arm of Government. "The agencies today," says a leading eco nomic policymaker in the Carter Administration, "are inde pendent baronies. They're like castles on the Rhine in the Middle Ages, when each castle stopped boats and collected a toll. Each agency collects its toll...
...trouble came when I tried to put the pack back on. One arm wouldn't move. No matter how hard I tried and concentrated it remained immobile and useless. And the other couldn't bend enough to be of any use. Meanwhile I'd started to shiver uncontrollably--the first symptom of hypothermia. I jumped up and down trying to keep warm. I couldn't laugh, the irony was too bitter--I'd made it across the stream, but to what...
...when they get hurt. It's even worse with younger kids. If it were up to me, I would eliminate all peewee and junior high school football. If you break or damage the growth plates of the bones at that age, the boy could end up with one arm or leg shorter than the other...
Rhodesia's ability to continue holding the Front forces at arm's length though apparently eroding as the weeks go by and the guerrillas become more and more daring, is still considerable. Consistently, ten guerrillas have fallen for each Rhodesian soldier who died in the fighting of the last few years. And Smith is counting on his 7900-man army and 35,000 reserves to improve that standard in future battles. The loyalty of black Rhodesian troops--who make up over half the active soldiers--has already been tested and not found wanting...
...organize a group of dissidents and set out for Fiver's dimly perceived paradise, the Watership Down of the title. In time they are aided by a delightfully loony seagull (whose wonderful vocal characterization is supplied by the late Zero Mostel), who acts as scout and air arm in the climactic struggle against the fascist warren of the evil General Woundwort. Along the way there are troubles with the dogs, cats and humans of a nearby farm, some semimystical encounters with the Black Rabbit (death), not to mention such mundane problems as snares and hrududus (rabbitese for motor vehicles...