Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a sound and sober analysis of the results of the NATO meeting (see THE PARIS CONFERENCE). The leaders of NATO had agreed unanimously to arm the Atlantic Alliance with history's most powerful weapons despite the Kremlin's threats that this could bring their extinction; they also had agreed to miss no chance for practical discussion of practical roads to peace. They had worked no miracles, but none had been expected; their mood as they left Paris was well described by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, secretary general of NATO, as one of "cool determination...
...speaker of Ghana's Parliament in the midst of a sudden outburst of anger on the floor, "let there be harmony in this House." Ghana's legislators were debating the Emergency Powers Bill by which the increasingly highhanded government of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah pro posed to arm itself with virtually dictatorial powers in case of a too-militant opposition. Time and again in the course of the two-week debate, shouts and catcalls, taunts and insults were hurled across the floor...
Life in Brooklyn was tough enough for the Dodgers' fireballing pitcher, Don Newcombe. His good right arm ached all summer long and the doctors could find little wrong; opposition batters were beginning to tag him, and he wound up the 1957 season with a dismal record of eleven victories and twelve defeats. He was almost ready to believe the unkind critics who maintained that he lost his stuff in the clutch. Then things got worse. The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, and Big Newk (6 ft. 4 in.) began to worry himself witless over the prospect of being forced...
...spent four $25-a-half-hour sessions listening to a suave, persuasive voice tell him that he was not really afraid, that the plane would not really crash. Newk liked that kind of pitch; early last spring a chiropractor pal tried a little amateur hypnotism and temporarily relieved his arm. Perhaps, the pitcher decided, Edelman could trance him out of all the tensions that sweat up his palms and take the hop off his high hard one in the big innings of a big game...
...Simmonds (M.I.T.) d. Bob Kozol, 14-8. 137--John Watkins (H) pinned Bernie Schneiderman in 2:37 with half nelson and body lock. 147--Orrin Hein (H) d. Mike Rosner, 5-0. 157--Joe Noble (H) pinned Joe Patalive in 5:43 with reverse head chancery and arm lock. 167--Steve Weddle (H) d. Mike Flint, 5-0. 177--Serge McKhann (H) d. Bill Martin, 2-0. Heavyweight--Ted Robbins (H) pinned Crane Zumzalt in 1:53 with reverse nelson and body lock...