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Word: armed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Small strip-mining companies that employ ten to 25 men and produce as much as 500 tons of coal a day remained open primarily by turning themselves into armed fortresses. At the Crooks strip mine, one of only two mines in southern Indiana that stayed constantly open during the strike, the trouble started in December when 300 striking miners showed up and asked Mineowner Ed Crooks to stop operations. Instead, he spent $6,000 on guns and ammunition to arm his 24 workers and hired half a dozen guards to keep watch. On the wall in the trailer that serves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: That's What Guns Are For | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Willie Loco Alexander and the Boom Boom Band, Baby's Arm, The Thrills. The Nerous Eaters, Human Sexual Response. The Jaguars, The One, The Cars, Tracks, The Molls, Ricky and the Invaders...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Even Punks Sing the Blues | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...Club in the next it depends on how rast we get our back. We're in limbo because his over and he beat the shit of her but out a warrant for his don't think he's coming back." In says a back of "ake sure Babys Arm...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Even Punks Sing the Blues | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...epee and foil, Harvard could capture only three bouts. Epeeman Bob Tillman blew junior Olympic pentathlete Mike Storm away, 5-3, in his opening bout by pushing out to a 2-1 lead and then, as time ran out, getting touches by extending his arm as Storm attacked...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Unbeaten Penn Dices Swordsmen, 18-9 | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...later bouts Tillman suffered as he began to let his arm drop exposing it to touches on short Penn lunges. Epeeman Rob Kaplan suffered in the same way, as the experienced Penn epeemen, who have lost only three bouts together in the Ivies this season, took advantage whenever they spied an unprotected forearm...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Unbeaten Penn Dices Swordsmen, 18-9 | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

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