Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bursting seas were cold-40°-and the air above the water was even colder. The men huddled together, breathed warmth onto each other's bodies. Fleming directed Mays and Strzelecki to hold on to each other as he put his arm around Meredith, scantily dressed and near freezing. Fleming kept telling...
From afar, the little guy continued, the Arm of that great essence might be a stupendous cluster of stars viewed against the sleek back of the blank universe, but in the armpit was Elysium...
Bundled into "association wards" (i.e., cells) in St. James Fort prison, the prisoners were forbidden to see their relatives or even to receive food from them. At one point, Nkrumah's strong-arm Minister of the Interior, Krobo ("The Crowbar") Edusei, inspected them along with an escort of guards armed with truncheons. Over the radio the government insisted that it had no desire to curb the opposition, even proclaimed the end of a two-month-old ban on political meetings. But The Crowbar, a mug through and through, was not yet done with his work...
...Colbert's and Boyer's. Their manner of saving it is to throw away as much of it as possible. What they give instead is an illustrated lecture-on the art of timing, of diversionary tactics, of seeming to fondle dialogue while carefully holding it at arm's length. Even they cannot too often succeed; and in any case there must, for two such delightful performers, be infinitely more profitable roles...
Graduate students in his field knew him. Sitting in cafeterias that bordered the campus or standing in one of the book-stores, they saw him go by, carrying the bag tightly under his right arm.... They knew he was a widower, and that he did his own cooking and his own housework. Occasionally one of the students rang his doorbell late in the afternoon and asked if Professor Greg was free to help him with a research problem on which he was working. Invariably he was invited in and given tea and macaroons, and from some invisible card file...