Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was, it seemed, plenty to tell. The Sobles, said their lawyer, are "two anguished individuals" manipulated by "the long arm of Russia" and "suffering intensely from experiences they had gone through before they emigrated to this country and since." Jack Soble, also known as Peter, Abram and, in earlier years, Abromas Sobolevicius, arrived in the U.S. in 1941 by way of Japan. He and Myra became U.S. citizens in 1947. Soble worked as a dealer in animal hair and bristles, but behind his façade of respectability, the U.S. charged, he served the Kremlin as a spymaster...
...contestant winning, all you have to do is figure out how not to hit a question he doesn't know. That's the basis of all quiz shows." The producers hand-pick their contestants for personality, occupation and geographical spread as well as specialized knowledge, then arm themselves with a shrewd, thorough insight into the contestant's strength and weakness, and have full control of the questions he will be asked...
...grown up that the Eisenhower Administration's $72 billion budget was a monstrosity. Actually, said a commentator on the scene, it is more like a woman who, at 1301bs., is ten lbs. overweight. What is needed is a careful, sensible slimming diet-not the amputation of an arm...
...ties"). Their quarrels were fiendish. Their cook, looking out of the window at 2 a.m., might descry Mummy, "her pink nightgown streaming behind her, rushing headlong down 97th Street toward Madison, screaming: 'I'll throw myself under the first streetcar!' " One morning, when she appeared with arm in sling, her right eye bruised she explained grandly: "I stumbled over a champagne case in the dark...
...Rochester, Harold Skellen woke up after Saturday-night celebrations feeling so terrible that he went to a hospital, was treated there for a fractured left arm, a broken nose, two black eyes, and head and face cuts requiring 79 stitches...