Word: armed
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...kind of ball, I always had a feeling for it. I knew how to handle it. I liked it." As Becker has grown physically, a part of his original appeal has diminished. Last week, vaulting the net after winning the Stella Artois at Queens Club, he placed his arm about Jimmy Connors' shoulders and positively dwarfed him. On tough points in the past, Becker has been inclined to rear up in celebration like a frisky and defiant Connors, but the effect is somehow unseemly now for the most powerful stallion in the herd...
...some Administration critics argued last week that Greenspan's surprise appointment already amounted to just such political meddling. Said Pierre Rinfret, a former Nixon Administration economic adviser and now a Wall Street consultant: "It's a real watershed. President Reagan has now succeeded in turning the Fed into an arm of the Administration...
...came by such feelings practically from the cradle. When Andres was a child, his uncle would strum an imaginary guitar and sing: "To play the guitar/ You need no 'science'/ Only a strong arm/ And perseverance." Segovia took this instruction to heart; aside from a few lessons from a strolling flamenco player, he was self-taught. His tastes, though, were sophisticated: Spanish music by Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega, baroque music by Bach and Purcell and works by such contemporaries as Benjamin Britten and Heitor Villa- Lobos, many of which were written especially...
Some now seek a return to more overseer input into governing the University. This push comes largely as an outgrowth of the recent challenge to the Board by pro-divestment candidates who want the body to address larger issues of social responsibility. As the democratic arm of the governance system, they say, the overseers have a responsibility to take a larger role...
...find I've been under a good deal of pressure for 10 to 12 years to make the University a rather militant arm of various causes, many of which I'm sympathetic to personally," he said, adding, however, that supporting such causes would "seriously compromise" theUniversity...