Word: armes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comin' to the Inauguration, Aunt Jessie?" asked the Chief. Mrs. Jes sie Hunter, a widow and an old friend of the family, shook her head, flustered. "I haven't been asked," she piped politely. The President of the U.S. put his arm around the elderly woman. "Pack your dress," he said in that soft, earnest tone, "and come on with us. Be at the ranch no later than 4:40. Air Force One won't leave without...
...realized that he had forgotten to put one hand on the Bible and raise the other; he corrected that, and continued the recitation slowly and so softly that he could scarcely be heard when he concluded, "So help me God." Finishing, he looked at Lady Bird; she squeezed his arm. The President turned to the crowd and be gan: "My fellow countrymen...
...with his right arm paralyzed, Charles Sheeler is nearly beyond accolades. Like blueprints of a new aesthetic, his precision paintings were the reductio ad minutam of the machine age. He mixed the academicism of his teacher, William Merritt Chase, with the cubist masters, made a living as a photographer until his immaculate industrial visions caught on. He could refine the reality of a locomotive's monstrous driving wheels so that even when they are frozen in two dimensions, their tremendous momentum leaps...
Just after dawn one morning, a group of about 100 men invaded the town of Simacota (pop. 5,000), a small farming community in the Andean foothills 225 miles northeast of Bogotá. Wearing khaki uniforms and FALN-type arm bands, the raiders attacked the police post with modern automatic weapons, killing three policemen and a child who wandered into the line of fire. With crisp military precision, they then cut communication lines, looted the government Agrarian Bank of $5,300, snatched the cashbox from the local brewery, and stole arms and ammunition from police headquarters. One of the leaders...
...pleasure of spending much of last Sunday with Dr. King, or as you might choose to say, he spent much of the day under my so-called "protective arm." He impressed me more favorably than he apparently...