Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criminals with records of violence, and Ray normally kept apart from such convicts. Although Ray was thought to have been the first man up the ladder, prison officials believed that the leader of the group might have been Larry Hacker, 32, a man with a spider tatooed on his arm who was serving a sentence of 28 years for robbery with a deadly weapon...
Carter's suit coat is draped over the arm of the couch, the label up: "Hart Schaffner & Marx, A. Cohen & Sons, Americus, Ga." The walls ripple with impressionism. Behind his chair is Childe Hassam's Flag Day, and to his right another Hassam, Old House at Easthampton. Near the door, Niagara Falls plunges silently, a swirl of delicate blues and pinks in an oil by John Twachtman. Fronting the desk is a huge painting of Rosalynn and Amy from the days in the Georgia statehouse, simple, almost ethereal...
...shot in the arm...
...read a newspaper in the past three years will recognize real-world dilemmas: a politically volatile Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads over oil prices; New York's banks hungering for Arab oil revenues to fend off a looming liquidity crunch; a spreading Middle Eastern arms race, with the U.S. shipping ultramodern weaponry to all takers in a frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian empire by military conquest...
...uncooperative or past their prime. A former college golfer turned lawyer and the father of three, McCormack, almost singlehanded, persuaded the networks to televise professional tennis by lining up sponsors himself, and he is the promotional genius behind such TV sweat derbies as Celebrity Superstars and the N.F.L. Arm-Wrestling Championship-all of which are well-stocked with I.M.G. clients. "I'm not an agent," says McCormack. "I'm an engineer of careers...