Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead, like so many things in this increasingly bureaucratized world, success off the court revolves around organizational efficiency and follow-through. Fortunately, McLaughlin and his right arm, Terry O'Connor (Harvard's first full-time assistant varsity coach), are in good condition...
Last night's invasion followed Prime Minister Menachem Begin's vow Monday to "cut off the arm of evil" and to "do what we have...
...Adding to last week's pressures, his son Christopher, 15, was operated on for cancer of the lungs; he had already lost an arm to the disease...
...probably paraphrase G.K. Chesterton to the effect that socialism, like Christianity, has not failed, because it has never been tried. Surveying Tanzania's mounting problems, for example, President Nyerere urges patience. "We are like a man who does not get smallpox because he got himself vaccinated," he explains. "His arm is sore, and he feels sick for a while. If he has never seen what smallpox does to people, he may feel very unhappy during that period and wish he had never agreed to the vaccination...
Nonsocialist societies, in fact, have done their own share of vaccinating and know the ache of a sore arm. Americans for decades have enjoyed Social Security and disability programs and unemployment benefits, to say nothing of the world's most extensive system of government-supported colleges and universities. Partly as a result, the U.S., like other industrial democracies, has begun to suffer the pains of a mushrooming bureaucracy...