Word: armed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better off than we were when we started," said State Department Official William Schneider. "We are crawling back to where we want to be." Sorting through the ambiguities created by a week's worth of arm wrestling with Congress over control of Central American policy, the Administration was able to claim a marginal victory. Lobbyists from the State Department nudged key House and Senate panels toward giving more money and support to El Salvador than many critics had wanted...
...said. He dictated his thoughts to secretaries. The testimony of aides and servants revealed no knowledge that he kept a diary and indicated that his daily schedule left precious little time for private jottings. His right hand trembled from progressively acute palsy and, after a 1944 assassination attempt, his arm was at least temporarily incapacitated by bomb wounds...
While workers were replacing steam line tunnels, the ground beneath a tractor collapsed, and the tractor's arm slipped and tell into the tunnel, rupturing the Cambridge Water Supply pipe, said Thomas Taverna, supervisor of the construction...
...cocked his arm and then let loose, not a fastball but a curve...
...done. One of the world's greatest designers took one of the world's fashion press by her unyielding arm and steered her through his fall collection, explaining. Pity the poor woman. She looked as if she had just been concussed by a cinder block from the Twilight Zone. Pity the poor designer. He was paying the price for doing something different...