Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Lisbon, the last Portuguese high commissioner in Angola, Admiral Leonel Cardoso, will lower his country's red, yellow and green flag at the 16th century stone fort of Sào Miguel in Luanda, the territory's capital. Then he plans to tuck it under his arm and-much to the annoyance of Angolans-sail off with it to Lisbon on a waiting Portuguese frigate. His unwillingness to hand over the flag with the reins of power is not a last vestige of colonial arrogance. It is just that he would not know whom to give...
...Bateman, Brown's excellent quarterback, likes to sprint out to the weak side, calling for his blockers to double team the end on that side. Brown goes only as far as Bateman's arm can take them. To shut him down, Baggott will have to fight off the blockers and keep up the pressure on the Brown quarterback...
...method of investigation in two cases which contributed so much to the creation of a national anti-communist hysteria, then clearly Weinstein's research and that of Hiss and the Meeropols will not simply serve to satisfy a historical curiosity. The means by which the investigative arm of the Justice Department obtained information during this period, certainly one of the darkest in American history, the pressures--personal or political--applied which turned a large number of ordinary people into informers, are essential to an understanding of this second and devastating "red scare...
...sound system harmonizing on "Blowin' in the Wind." The curtain came up and revealed them leaning into a shared microphone. "Bob Dylan and Joan Baez," Dylan barked in his best impressario voice into the applause that followed the song. They did a couple of more songs together, her arm draped casually around his neck, and then he left...
...woman feels she would not jeopardize her job, then she should walk off," Lackaff said, "but because of the economic situation we are simply urging women to wear yellow arm bands to show their support...