Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pennsylvania legislature for the passage of a law compensating miners stricken with "black lung." Boyle thought the time was not right for the passage of such an act. He set out to stifle Yablonski by making him director of Labor's Nonpartisan League, the union's feeble political arm. Yablonski decided to challenge Boyle in the 1969 election. This decision led to his murder...
...needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...
...other hand, Harvard cops frequently arrest Cambridge youths. Murphy guesses that local teenagers commit over half of Harvard's crimes. One Wednesday night, Murphy and his partner, Jack Stanton, caught a teenager loitering in the Science Center. "I reached for his arm, and he pulled out this bag full of pills," Stanton said later. "Christ, the guy was so high, he didn't even know he had them, so he said that we must have planted them...
...loftily addressing the older one as "comrade" and humming obnoxiously. Suddenly he lashes out to knock down the younger worker, while the older guard just stands there and lets them escape. Marlow is confused until Zaleshoff later explains that he had noticed a tiny scar on the man's arm. Italian workers in 1923 used to tatoo a hammer and sickle on their arms in the early days of fascism to show they didn't give a damn if anybody knew they were communists. This defiance wisely abated, but Zaleshoff had guessed about the scar and had been humming...
...Broadway show Equus. Liz was miffed, however, to find Dick spending his offstage time with Susan Hunt, 27, estranged wife of Race-Car Driver James Hunt. For his part, Dick, 50, was said to be troubled by Liz's reported outings recently in Switzerland, on the arm of a Maltese advertising executive. So, after a quick reunion with her husband, Liz abruptly packed off to California. Said a friend of the couple: "The only thing that could divert a divorce would be another reconciliation." All right now, once more with feeling...