Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week with an amendment proposed by Virginia's Joseph Fisher to slash 2% from the budget resolution. O'Neill, Wright and Democratic Whip John Brademas of Indiana again grabbed wavering Democrats and persuaded them to support the party's leadership. O'Neill jokingly described the arm twisting as "strictly an appeal to reason." Said Wright: "After they had already gone over the brink, we threw over a rope and pulled them back." The leaders changed a dozen votes, and the Fisher amendment was beaten...
...Stockwell insists, the civil war was so low-key that two C-47 gunships crammed with Gatling guns-Viet Nam's "Puff the Magic Dragon"-could have turned the tide for the moderates. But they would also have exposed the U.S. involvement, so instead it was decided to arm the guerrillas clandestinely. Says Stockwell: "We had tons of weapons shipped in, some of it 'sanitized' stuff [unmarked as to origin], and lots of World War II arms which the agency figured anybody could acquire anywhere in the world." The equipment was flown to Kinshasa, Zaire...
...Ling clambered down from his seat on the right arm of the Father, and disappeared into his tent. "He's getting his wok," Lori said in her gravelly voice. "We're going to have the traditional revolutionary meal of his ancestors." She paused. "They ate it before the Big One in '48." Too emerged with the huge dome upside down over his head, looking like a toadstool...
...pace and, despite his years, the cool confidence that he could win. In his first full year as a jockey, he won 477 races in New York State alone, and this despite a four-week hiatus after a terrifying spill had left him with a broken rib, a smashed arm and facial lacerations. Three times he rode six winners in a nine-race program; four times he won five. In one amazing week he won 23 of the 54 races at New York's Aqueduct Race Track. In 1977 Cauthen's mounts earned more than $6 million...
...grabbed him by the legs and then leaped on him, gripping him around the neck with one arm and threatening him with a blackjack in the other. "If you make a noise, son, you're f--dead," he said...