Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ejection came fast. First out was Holland. Strapped in his seat, he hit the air like a bullet splattering against a steel wall. The blasting air stream broke his right arm, fractured his pelvis, pulled apart the ligaments of his left leg, belted his face and body into a raw, black and blue mess. Then his chute opened. Pilot Smith ejected next, took the same pummeling as his body shot into the steely air, but his chute never opened and he fell, crushed, to the ground. Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder...
...resentful and suspicious of the U.S. But both are coming to see that there may be a force loose in the Middle East that is more dangerous to their own interests than each is to the other. The two may yet find themselves making common cause together, if at arm's length...
...What love does is to arm. It arms the worth of life in spite of life...
...bars of soap," they trill, "three cans of peas, two breakfast foods, and some toothpaste on a pear tree." Later, they launch into another holiday favorite: "Dashing through the snow in a 50-foot coupe." They stop to admire a cigarette-ad Santa Claus with a tattoo on each arm-one reading "Merry Christmas," the other "Less Tar"-and then jangle through Jingle Bells with a cash register clanking in the background...
...that the Western powers have begun to arm West Germany and turn her into an instrument of their policy spearheaded against the Soviet Union," Moscow said, "the very essence of the Allied agreement on Berlin has vanished ... A patently absurd situation has thus arisen, where the Soviet Union is supporting and maintaining, as it were, the favorable conditions for the Western powers' activity against the U.S.S.R...