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Word: armes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sure," Rosenthal said, "Use it all." Putting his arm around me with bacchanalian warmth, he graciously invited me to "Come down to the Times...

Author: By Clark Mason, | Title: Abe Rosenthal: His Life and Times | 5/26/1976 | See Source »

Current events didn't play such a large role for all of the Gov students. As one freshman noted as he struggled out of Lamont with an arm-load of Gov 40 readings, "Are you serious? If it weren't for law school, you'd never catch me in this grind...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Class of '79 Is the Same As the Rest | 5/21/1976 | See Source »

...Chesler and Goodman, "Touching' is one way of signifying power: economic power in general and sexual power, the droit du seigneur." While this may sound overly ominous, men, whether they like the role of aggressor or not, seem to touch more readily. The boss can wrap a paternal arm around a female's shoulder without seeming too forward. If she returned the gesture, the scene would become an embarrassment or a joke; only by this reversal would its essential presumptuousness or plain silliness come out. A woman who acts this way might be tagged a flirt--a demeaning...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Notes for Wayward Women | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

...seconds left, gets a steal, a rebound, an assist, six points, and has two free throws with one second left; the team is down only by one. He misses the first, then concentrates with tongue-tip precision on the tying point. "I take a deep breath, draw back my arm and in one quick motion I hurl the ball twenty feet over the backboard into the crowd. And I laugh and laugh and laugh...

Author: By Tom Keffer, | Title: Worse for the Wear | 5/18/1976 | See Source »

...make a statement on fascism in America and suggests how easily it could happen here. But it makes no statement; and ironically, the editors have devoted four pages earlier in the issue to ascetic unto death California Governor Jerry Brown's prayer breakfast. The prayer breakfast is a favorite arm-twisting device of southern Democratic senators. Brown's was replete with a Sufi "choir" and Brown saying, "Since I have been in Sacramento I find that everyone is coming to government to find out what's going on. I have to ask myself where does government go to find...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Futurism and All That | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

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