Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black Smoke. The three refugees were typical. Slight, nervous Arthur Woloski had the number 166773 tattooed on his arm. His parents perished in Nazi gas chambers. His own knowledge of Nazi concentration camps was thorough: it showed in the black gaps in his white teeth, the bayonet wounds and whip marks on his shoulders and ankles...
Harvard will be especially handicapped in the lightweight classes. Dave Smith, whose arm was overextended at the elbow two weeks ago, has been cleared by the medical staff but will not risk a reinjury midway in the season. Bob Abbond will wrestle...
There was no time to waste. His new world was ready for use. Thrusting his Holiday under his arm and picking up his Spring Activities Circular, or Catalogue as it was called, Vag started toward the Yard. The day was warm and several couples were lounging on the steps of Emerson; strange the management had forgotten the deck chairs that morning. Vag shook his head reproachfully and looked through the Circular to see what was doing at 11:00. So many interesting things; the management was doing its best to keep everybody occupied. He picked out an activity meeting...
With his hands clasped in front of him and his notebook tucked under his arm like a Psalter, Secretary of State Dean Acheson paced down the aisle of the State Department's auditorium last week. The big room was crammed with 200 newsmen for the new Secretary's first press conference. Gravely, he seated himself...
...favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the Cabinet table. There, Taft regaled them with droll stories, "shaking," says Henning, "like a bowl full of jelly." Henning found Woodrow Wilson irascible and short-tempered, and Calvin Coolidge a man who "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...