Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME for me for the rest of my life. Today the familiar cover of TIME glowed from Berlin newsstands, and in a few hours all copies were sold out. In the subway I entered into conversation with perfect strangers simply because they carried a copy of TIME under an arm, or were reading it. It was as though we were old friends...
...Navy had been getting away with too much, too long; the Army Air Forces could keep silent no longer. The Navy had been promoting itself as "the strong right arm of the State Department." When the U.S. wanted to make a show of force in the Mediterranean, it used the Navy (TIME, Sept. 30). The volatile, high-octane boys in the Air Forces were sure that a single B-29 sitting on a runway in Europe, with a "mushroom bomb" in its belly, would be a more convincing show of force, at a fraction of the Navy's cost...
With the score tied at 12 each late in the fourth quarter, Kirkland, trying for the all-important point-after-touchdown decided that place-kicking had been far too shaky all afternoon, and elected to let their hopes ride instead on the passing arm of Jerry Glynn...
...capsizing and it was late. A scheme was hit upon. Ropes were thrown from the dock and secured on shore. Members of the shore party went into the water and ranged themselves along the ropes. Then, by means of this human life line, some two hundred souls were relayed, arm to arm, from the sea to the land. These were men of the Hagansh, the Jowish Resistance Movement...
Maurice Maeterlinck, in pain with a broken arm after a trip over a rug in his Manhattan apartment, was still sticking to his last at 84. Except for the arm, the author of The Blue Bird was fine, reported his wife. What was he currently engaged in? "Planning happiness...