Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the verdict, Meyers' blonde wife struggled through the crowd to put her arm around him, wept a little. Meyers was impassive. This week he was sentenced to 20 months to five years in prison...
Talbot recalled later: "Bellows just kinda folded up on the ground. . . . They just threw him down beside the fire." Talbot and Johnson went on drinking. Finally the Klansmen dragged all three into the shack, jabbed a hypodermic into Johnson's arm, gave Talbot two jabs...
...political field force equal in talent and capacity to our military commands and forces in Europe. The equivalent mistake in 1948 would be to leave the execution of the Marshall Plan to businessmen, economists and kindred specialists. We must summon the finest political intelligence that we can assemble, arm it with adequate tools and direction, and place it in the field with our dollars...
...young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...
...elaborator of somber paradoxes is something of a paradox himself. Hawk-nosed and saturnine, Reinhold Niebuhr is, nevertheless, a cheerful and gracious (though conversationally explosive) man. An intellectual's intellectual, he nevertheless lectures and preaches with the angular arm-swinging of a revivalist. An orthodox Protestant, he is one of the busiest of leftist working politicians-a member of the Liberal party. For his gloomy view of man and history does not inhibit hL belief that man should act for what he holds to be the highest good (always bearing in mind that sin will dog his action...