Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong, repressive arm of law & order would be no permanent solution in a country where the average per capita wage is 5? a day and a quarter of the population of Bombay and Calcutta sleep on the streets. But the other horn of the dilemma is unrestrained freedom for communal and class conflict which, in a weak, new state, might disastrously degenerate into chaos. Patel is obviously going to try it his way. The Boss has performed miracles of organization before...
Extracurricular interest in the graphic arts, which has been moribund since 1933, got a shot in the arm recently with the organization of the Harvard Art Association. Not since the esoteric Society for Contemporary Art died in the depths of the depression has the scene looked so hopeful for undergraduate brush wielders...
...curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples: "Little Ossie Fagus, non compos mentis, biblioclasmic. . . . You're stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench] . . . don't be a Fanny Willie [showoff] ... dig up a new arm in some cemetery." Besides being athletic director and basketball coach, Keaney also brews his own medicines; the team swears by his skin-hardener and his cure for athlete's foot...
...slowly raised himself, eased his green-stockinged feet over the side of the bed until they touched the floor. With a nurse holding each arm, he stiffened up straight, and, with slow, tottering, stiff-knee steps, he walked. The room, jampacked with doctors, politicos, newsmen, broke into applause...
...Armed Force. In Savannah, Mrs. Violet Mackey, animal-farm owner, tangled with a four-foot alligator that clamped onto her arm, vainly struggled to get free, finally dragged the reptile into the house, got a pistol, shot...