Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaty to a vote, clause by clause. In 23 minutes, he whipped his boys (and Mme. Pauker) through the required 58 votes. Once, one of his stooges forgot to raise his hand; Vishinsky nudged him: "Hey, pay attention." Fifty-seven times, as he voted "abstention," Cannon's arm shot up like a railroad signal gone wild; the 58th time (when the draft as a whole was put to the vote) he voted "no" but was, from habit, listed as abstaining again. He rose to his last skirmish: "Mr. Chairman, there has been an error . . ." Vishinsky murmured impatiently: "All right...
...interservice committee, under the chairmanship of the Army's Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray, recommended that the air and ground forces of the state-controlled National Guard be merged with the federally controlled Organized Reserve Corps into a single, federal reserve arm for each service. In place of the guard, each state would raise its own militia unit, as it did in wartime...
...Dallas, a robust lady strode up to a man with a package of meat under his arm, demanded: "Don't you know that no decent-minded citizen should buy meat?" In Utica, N.Y., a "Budget Brigade" of 3,000 women phoned other women, asked them to stop buying meat. In Detroit, housewives set up stands outside the markets and exhorted customers not to enter. A man on stilts teetered through the streets of Boston bearing the legend: "Don't buy any meat for two weeks. You'll live...
...named Korzhinsky had approached her in the street and whispered: "You should not go to Russia-they will send you to Siberia." A little later a man named Leo Costello had lured her to a park bench on Riverside Drive and had deftly plunged a hypodermic needle into her arm. Then everything had gone black...
...making it look as if the wearer were carrying a huge semicircular balloon on her stern. In his "Winged Line," beruffled evening dresses were boned, wired, lined and otherwise stiffened to flare out as much as two feet in all directions, preventing their wearers from sitting down, dancing within arm's reach of a partner, or standing...