Word: armed
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Dole is a politician so absorbed in his craft that his dedication-and travel -helped to break up his first marriage. He projects an impression of coiled-spring tautness. Indeed, he exudes so much vitality that new acquaintances usually do not notice the fact that his right arm is withered, the result of a devastating war wound, until they reach out to shake hands with him. (To avoid embarrassing anyone, Dole usually carries a pencil or a paper in his right hand so that a newcomer will not instinctively try to shake it upon being introduced...
Near the end of the roll call, as West Virginia put Ford over, Nancy Reagan reached her arm around her husband's neck and said loud enough for the dozen or so people in the room to hear: "I don't care, honey, we did what no one else ever did." There was a pause, and then Reagan thanked the staff for their hard work. "The long ride is over," he said quietly. When he turned his attention back to the screen, his chief aide Mike Deaver spoke from across the room and suggested the Governor might also...
President Ford got a shot in the arm last week that he very much wanted: after heavy presidential pressure, congressional opposition to federal liability insurance for Ford's massive flu vaccination program collapsed. The legislation breezed through Congress by unanimous voice vote in the Senate and by 250 to 83 in the House. Now more than 200 million Americans will eventually have a chance to get a shot in the arm that some may need, and others not, that some will want, and others will not. Under the law, participation will be entirely voluntary. The Department of Health, Education...
...when Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser asked to make a Bicentennial visit to the U.S. He had also hoped to stop in Manila to sign a new base agreement with the Philippines, but the talks bogged down, so that was out. In fact, he even had to do a little arm twisting to get himself invited to The Netherlands. Even though Kissinger had never paid the country a visit, the Dutch tried diplomatically to decline the honor this time, pointing out that several top officials were away on August vacations. But the Secretary replied gently that it was now or never...
...when Celine was 19, he enlisted in the cavalry and was wounded -in the arm, not the head, as he often claimed. After World War I he worked on a Rockefeller Institute project in France as an anti-TB propagandist, screaming at Breton villagers to boil their milk. He got into medical school, it was rumored, only by marrying the daughter of the head of the faculty...