Word: armed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former naval flight surgeon, she proudly displays her simple silver wedding band. "You will notice no diamonds," she said, saying further that "Jack and I joke that other doctors in Sarasota spend $200 a week eating out. We don't, and this is why." She swept an arm grandly back toward the gleaming old bird, and just then an aficionado approached with a world of esoteric inquiries...
...hand so hard she fears her bones might crack. The camera shows mother and daughter walking at a distance. Eddie describes the night he and his father stroll silently to a liquor store and share a bottle of whiskey. The camera shows the father walking and talking with his arm around his son, not bothering to offer him a bit of the liquor...
...others continue drawing. Ralphy has returned and produces an excellent self-portrait. Michael has stopped drawing. He sits at a desk, lays his head on his arm and stares dreamily at the window and the dark blue afternoon. He takes a swig of apple juice and is reprimanded by Lori for not asking first. "Let's play outside, Lori," he asks. Lori explains that today is meant for drawing. Michael takes more apple juice without permission. Lori says that she will tell Sister Geraldine...
...finger. I had her like this, you know, my arm around her head, and my hand was in her face, scratching her. I wanted to hurt her bad. The night before, I polished my fingernails to make them hard. Her father charged me with assault. That's stupid. But I got in trouble in school, in court, and my mother, you know, she cried when the cops came. Mothers get so nervous. But that's stupid. They wouldn't lock...
...more than two hours Ortega faced questions from campesinos who had gathered for the occasion. Would the President find more land for peasants? (Yes. That very afternoon he would award 375 families some 6,000 acres of land.) Would he help arm the townspeople against the U.S.-sponsored contra rebels? (No. Nicaragua, he said, has no spare firearms.) Ortega rarely missed an opportunity to promote the goals and concerns of the Sandinista regime. "The revolution is not yet finished," he declared...