Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Jewish groups, however, favor voluntary talks with converts rather than strong-arm tactics. New York's new Jewish Community Relations Council has a task force compiling data on 45 missionary groups and has assigned psychologists and educators to develop a counter strategy. Similar efforts are under way in 16 other cities...
...free agent was just an unemployed spy, knew more about the sporting life in America than most people who get paid to write about it. Dean was a self-professed country bumpkin with a fearsome fastball that more than made up for his scrambled syntax, but even when his arm died he still knew how to play the game. One day in the tail end of his career he found himself on first base as a pinch runner in the late innings of a crucial game. The bat cracked and leather trimmed the grass, skidding into a textbook double play...
...high time that America and the world got a real look at the thousands of arm-pumping buffers and puffers who spend many lonely miles dodging cars, potholes and dogs with but one consolation: I made...
Four decades just could not be swept away overnight. When the first Communist campaign caravan rolled through Ciudad Real, old women crossed themselves. "As far as they were concerned, we were people with horns on our heads and bombs under each arm," said a party worker. "That's all they had ever known." While leftist parties did open some offices in villages, they made few converts. In one pueblo, a leftist coalition called a rally and found exactly two people in attendance. "Comrades," began one of the speakers, whereupon the two men stepped forward and identified themselves as Civil Guards...
...show through most of the early rounds. This bizarre collection of ballplayers, ranging from the smiling Javier Fierro, an overweight shortstop with a magical glove, to the sensational Darrell Brown, an All-American centerfielder with the ego of Ali and a similar knack for poetry (this on his arm--"If you run, you're done."), delighted the crowds with his fresh approach to the game and its wacky brand of success...